Like a fart in the wind

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Cake day: January 27th, 2026

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  • I fully agree with you. The experiences are very different. I think it’s a disservice to point people especially first time gamers to a Steam deck and say “oh look it’s a console”

    For me the definition of a console is plug and play with a dedicated UI. Anything you can see in the store you can run ! Anything marked it can play you put the medium in and it runs …

    The online discourse on here and on gaming channels have little if any understanding of people who have never picked up a game controller before. Or is under the age of 12.

    And even if there was a “war” between the two the Switch most certainly won I believe 120 million to 6 Million ?

    There most certainly still is a mainstream market to take advantage of



  • For me it was Xbox One. From day one (no pun intended) it just didn’t feel good to me. The UI experience never got away from being awful. The system itself was a sluggish awful mess. It should never take more than 3 seconds to load your options menu . On top of that Everytime I turned on my console it would take a half hour or more to update. The must have games just never came. The games they did come played worse than nearly anywhere else. If I was a teenage when I bought this system and played everyday some of these short comings could have been avoided. But as an adult it just felt terrible . From here I went back to Pc gaming made a rig that would destroy any console at the time. It was so bad to me I canceled my Xbox Live Subscription I had for 15 years ! That killed my love to Xbox entirely.

    Probably second place was the PS3 but I bought it at the end of the generation and never got the exclusives I should have …