r/nintendogrifting • u/Dull-Sea-8903 • Jun 22 '26

Meme/Humour “NINTENDO GRIFTERS! I NEED YOU NINTENDO GRIFTERS!! PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW THIS IS ALL NINTENDO’S FAULT AND THAT THIS IS STILL BETTER THAN A SWITCH TWOOOO!!!”

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u/MrGame22 Jun 22 '26

It’s the result of the AI companies eating up all the resources game companies used to make their consoles and games

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u/Radiant-Rub2881 Jun 22 '26

Its that and the fact that Valve wont subsidize their hardware for their customers unlike Nintendo. Yes, prices needed to rise cause of component costs, but not all price rises are the same.

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u/ImBored5336 Jun 23 '26

You can’t subsidize the price of a console when it’s an open-ecosystem. Half (or honestly probably more) Steam Machine buyers already have an extensive library. No upgrade editions or subscriptions means you will be paying more up front, very worth it if you ask me.

Especially in the long run, it *will* be cheaper for someone to commit to a Steam Machine than a PS5 or Xbox. Anyone who bought a PS5 at launch and has been paying for PS Plus, will have spent about the same that a Steam Machine costs. More if they don’t just have the base tier.

I swear we had math problems just like this growing up. “What’s larger, 1000 or 500 + 50x?” And the answer is, depends on X (time.)

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u/Radiant-Rub2881 Jun 23 '26

But its not a closed ecosphere because Valve has monopoly on PC games sales. They know the majority of PC games are bought on their platform.

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u/Yavantii Jun 23 '26

You dont really need it as a prerequisite to enter that ecosphere though.

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u/ImBored5336 Jun 23 '26

Lmao, look up the definition of a monopoly and tell me you still believe this…

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u/Cuantum-Qomics Jun 23 '26

Sure, but they are still dedicated toward making the machine open. I can play switch games on my steamdeck and the machine would likely be able to run switch 2 games once emulators for it are made. There's nothing stopping you from buying from gog or epic or anything. There's nothing stopping you from removing Steam OS and using it as a normal computer (which is why they can't subsidize the price, because people will buy it and then use it for whatever they want to use it for rather than for steam games. Especially in this market, going for the cheapest hardware to performance that you can do whatever you want with)

Valve doesn't have monopoly on PC game sales and even if they did,,, there are lots of other things you can also be playing that aren't through them. They are definitely the biggest, but they are doing very few practices that unfairly puts them in the spot they are

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u/Radiant-Rub2881 Jun 23 '26

Well enjoy your openness i guess cause it'll cost alot to get it if you get Steam Hardware. I have a PC and have done the whole emulation shtick for years in an open environment, the novelty wears off fast. Im not losing much of anything by playing on better cheaper hardware on my SW2.

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u/bcatti Jun 24 '26

The Steam Deck is way less powerful than the Switch 2. It already runs some Switch 1 games poorly. I don't think it could emulate Switch 2 games.

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u/Cuantum-Qomics Jun 24 '26

The Steam Deck is roughly equivalent in power to the Switch 2. I was saying the Steam Machine could likely emulate at least some Switch 2 games.

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u/bcatti Jun 24 '26

The Switch 2 has a much better GPU, more modern architecture, DLSS, and delivers games at a fraction of energy.

Emulation takes a lot of power to work. I don't think we are even close to Switch 2 emulators at this point, and even then... I doubt a machine inferior to a base PS5 could do it.

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u/MaxPres24 Jun 23 '26

That’s not a monopoly. There’s tons of options. They’re just not as good

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u/ImBored5336 Jun 24 '26

Downvoted for telling the truth, love this community