Looking for some advice. My Switch Lite is approaching the end of its life and given that a Switch 2 is basically the same price as an OLED Steamdeck I was thinking it might be a good time to jump back to PC gaming.

I’m not much of a gamer. I got the Switch Lite because of portability and the ability to wake it up, play for ten minutes and then toss it back in my bag. My only beefs with the Switch ecosystem is that you can’t download DLC - for Cities Skylines I have the bare game on Switch but a pile of DLC on my laptop for example.

So - would going with a Steamdeck make sense? Any gotchas I should know about? Is there a better option?

Thanks all!

**edit: y’all rock. I’m ordering an OLED Steamdeck

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    143·
    2 days ago

    Steam Deck will offer you the full steam library of games

    *some exclusions apply.

    Of my nearly 300 games in my library, 36 are fully steam deck certified. While another ~70 have some layer of compatibility. Leaving almost 1/3rd of my library not usable on the Steam Deck.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 days ago

      1/3 sounds high. Just because it isn’t verified doesn’t mean it won’t work, and most of the non-anti-cheat-related compatibility problems are solved by installing Proton GE.

    • Jtskywalker@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Some games that say not supported actually work fine. I was disappointed to not be able to play some older games like Jedi Academy, but I installed it, set a community made controller mapping, and it works with zero issues.

      Sure there are some games that don’t work, but a lot more do than just the ones that are steam deck certified / playable.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      “Deck verified” is an absolutely useless metric and very often wrong. I pay no attention to them and neither should you.