Switch 2 predicted to match Steam Deck price, $100 more than OG Switch

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It's pretty likely that the Nintendo Switch 2 is due out this year, and according to one analyst, it's going to get a b…

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The price of the library is nearly the same, though... sad

Not sure what you mean. I get deals all the time using sites like gg.deals to cross reference multiple store fronts for PC deals for my Steam Deck, paying a fraction of what they would have cost on Switch.

He was memeing that buying the 5% of the games the Switch has would cost just as much as buying everything on Steam.

Exactly this. Steam has one huge benefit for players: it made gaming pretty cheap. If you don't need every game day 1 and you are patient, you can play dirt cheap. And I mean dirt cheap.

This is not entirely true for Nintendo, which tends to hold prices way higher. At least from the quick glance I made couple years ago when I was thinking about Switch.