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A sidepoint, obviously irrelevant to the technical feats of Yuzu, is that one of the main draws for me about the Switch is that it allows me to leave the comput

by nanna 6y ago

A sidepoint, obviously irrelevant to the technical feats of Yuzu, is that one of the main draws for me about the Switch is that it allows me to leave the computer and desk at which I sit 90% of my waking life, especially these days. That alone is worth using the real hardware and not emulating it.

JansjoFromIkea 6y ago
Yep, the separation from the rest of your stuff is probably the main draw of a Switch if I were to get one right now. Similarly to how I rarely use the Oculus Link functionality on my Quest 2, it's just nice to have a device that feels independent of my work station. Was just messing about with CEMU yday and found I could play BOTW in 4K at 60fps on my computer, it looked absolutely beautiful compaired to playing on my Wii U but I can't see myself being able to settle down and play on that machine. I also think having access to so much stuff has made the hassle of tinkering not worth it for most people. Can remember back as a kid with dial up how I would relentlessly fine tune configurations to get some emulated games to a playable state, the slightly bit of lag on an emulation now and I'm like "crap, is this gonna keep happening? can I be bothered enduring this??"
- lapetitejort 6y ago
  Get a good controller and use the Steam Link app as a cheap and easy way to extend your PC to wherever you have good wifi. I have a Razer Kishi and it delivers a very good switch-like experience.
  - tubularhells 6y ago
    I don't have a smart phone though.
badsectoracula 6y ago
Check out the GPD Win devices, they are basically handheld x86 PCs running Windows 10 (you can install Linux too). The third one was announced recently (i'm not sure if it is yet available) and is quite good (also has a more Switch-like design while the others are more like tiny laptops) - here is a video of Linus from Linus Tech Tips gushing over it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LclRTo2YnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LclRTo2YnQ One issue they have is that they're expensive (the earlier ones can be found for cheap, note however that the first one might have some battery issues) compared to the Switch, but on the other hand they are not susceptible to planned obsolescence and extreme locked down environments like pretty much all consoles are: you can run any game of the gigantic PC game library there (assuming the specs are met... of course :-P) and new games will be released for pretty much as long as the hardware can function. Here is me using mine with an unfinished version of an MS-DOS game jam game (i had to put my tablet between me and the handheld to record it hence the awful controlling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF8WqllGKg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF8WqllGKg8 (yeah they're also neat demo devices :-P)

by nanna 6y ago

JansjoFromIkea 6y ago

Yep, the separation from the rest of your stuff is probably the main draw of a Switch if I were to get one right now. Similarly to how I rarely use the Oculus Link functionality on my Quest 2, it's just nice to have a device that feels independent of my work station. Was just messing about with CEMU yday and found I could play BOTW in 4K at 60fps on my computer, it looked absolutely beautiful compaired to playing on my Wii U but I can't see myself being able to settle down and play on that machine. I also think having access to so much stuff has made the hassle of tinkering not worth it for most people. Can remember back as a kid with dial up how I would relentlessly fine tune configurations to get some emulated games to a playable state, the slightly bit of lag on an emulation now and I'm like "crap, is this gonna keep happening? can I be bothered enduring this??"

lapetitejort 6y ago
Get a good controller and use the Steam Link app as a cheap and easy way to extend your PC to wherever you have good wifi. I have a Razer Kishi and it delivers a very good switch-like experience.
- tubularhells 6y ago
  I don't have a smart phone though.

badsectoracula 6y ago

Check out the GPD Win devices, they are basically handheld x86 PCs running Windows 10 (you can install Linux too). The third one was announced recently (i'm not sure if it is yet available) and is quite good (also has a more Switch-like design while the others are more like tiny laptops) - here is a video of Linus from Linus Tech Tips gushing over it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LclRTo2YnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LclRTo2YnQ One issue they have is that they're expensive (the earlier ones can be found for cheap, note however that the first one might have some battery issues) compared to the Switch, but on the other hand they are not susceptible to planned obsolescence and extreme locked down environments like pretty much all consoles are: you can run any game of the gigantic PC game library there (assuming the specs are met... of course :-P) and new games will be released for pretty much as long as the hardware can function. Here is me using mine with an unfinished version of an MS-DOS game jam game (i had to put my tablet between me and the handheld to record it hence the awful controlling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF8WqllGKg8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF8WqllGKg8 (yeah they're also neat demo devices :-P)