Valve Steam Deck versus Nintendo Switch: Which should you buy?
You’ll often hear PC enthusiasts – including yours truly – say that the Nintendo Switch is the perfect companion console for your gaming rig, thanks to its handheld mode for on-the-go gaming, deep indie library, and access to Nintendo-exclusive games.
The stickiness of that last benefit will soon be put to the test, as Valve’s newly announced Steam Deck handheld PC (pictured above) mimes the Switch form factor but revolves around your existing Steam account…and all the games already in it. Oh my.
In the battle of the Steam Deck versus the Nintendo Switch, who comes out on top? We’ll take it to the tape below, but first let’s talk about what matters most: the games, and why the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch might not even be true competitors at all.
