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> Most games are made for consoles first, rarely other way around. Except in the actual case I mentioned with the list, where almost all of the cross-platform
by croon 5y ago
> Most games are made for consoles first, rarely other way around.
Except in the actual case I mentioned with the list, where almost all of the cross-platform ones are made for PC first, from Divinity to Hades to Undertale to Inside, Steamworld, Shovel Knight, Hollow Knight, Ori, Bastion, Dead Cells, Into the Breach, Fez, etc etc etc.
Seeing how basically all games that aren't first party or specific exclusives are lighter (hardware wise) PC games actually speaks to a huge market for those games on a portable device.
> Anyhow, you can play on your screen with docked switch. You can play on your couch with steam link, or pc hooked up to tv.
Playing on the couch would be competing with Xbox and Playstation, not Switch, which as you said is already a solved problem.
This would be for anywhere you play your Switch undocked, and you don't want a Switch for whatever reason (likely more indies, emulators, "apps").
- me_me_me 5y ago> This would be for anywhere you play your Switch undocked, and you don't want a Switch for whatever reason (likely more indies, emulators, "apps"). And now we came the full circle. Back to the original point. I don't believe Valve is capable of competition at this point. I would require serious people and money effort to create this 'whatever reason'. Because I gave you a big one for Switch and I don't see one for Valve (obscure small indie games that don't get ported to Switch is hardly a selling point).
- croon 5y agoI think you missed for the third time the point that almost all Switch games that aren't Mario, Zelda and the likes are specifically "obscure indie games". And there are multitudes more that aren't ported to Switch. And even the ones that are, would be available here as well, along with potential other features that Switch doesn't have (over the air streaming games), etc. Personally, if I were to buy a Switch, I would have to buy all the games I wanted to play on their for, I assume, $50 each. With something like this I own half of the games on the Switch top 100 games already, on Steam. If it could access Humble Bundle games etc too, would be a plus. But the price point will probably play a big part.