Do they prevent you from using it easily? Yes, they sell software on a platform, but so does Nintendo. Yet Nintendo hardware is completely locked down and the s

Do they prevent you from using it easily? Yes, they sell software on a platform, but so does Nintendo. Yet Nintendo hardware is completely locked down and the software they sold you works only on said locked down hardware. Meanwhile, I can run anything on SteamDeck, and I can run SteamDeck software and/or their games on any reasonable gaming PC, in any form factor. In practice, over the years that I've had a gaming collection with them, they've only ENABLED me to run the games easily.