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

  • missingno
    4•1 month ago

    Obviously it depends on what games you want to play.

    The one point I will mention in the Switch’s favor is that I feel like it’s a much better handheld. It’s a lot lighter and I like the feel of the JoyCons better (or I did until mine went bad, we’ll see how durable S2 JoyCons are). Still, both are ultimately too bulky for me to take on the go, instead I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus on sale and that’s become my portable while the Deck gathers dust and the Switch no longer leaves the dock.