There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.
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All (most?) of your games will run on your future computers.
You can play DOS games just fine right now, so yes it's a good bet. And a far better bet than the PS6 being backwards compatible.
The crazy thing for me is that I have a little handheld specific for dos games. The problem I run into every time is having to setup computer keyboard bindings for each game to play them using the built-in controller. I really want retroarch or another dos emulator to do profiles for different games and I haven't seen that yet.
Unless they change CPU architectures.
And even then it's no guarantee. Plenty of games needed support from the likes of GoG to run. Hell, I couldn't even play Ex Machina because I had a HDR monitor and the game detected that and completely broke. Disabling HDR in Windows did nothing.
well. there's already winlator (basically box86 / wine-wrapper for android).
Not as polished and far as Proton is, but the bones are there.
A CPU architecture change wouldn't be a deathblow.
Ex Machina the movie or the 1984 "game"? That's before Mario was even a thing.
Fucking auto correct...
It was Nex Machina.
That's a 2017 game
Yes, I know. And I already can't play it due to changes in hardware.
That doesn't make any sense. I can play multiple games from 2017 with no problem at all. I play games from 2012 and up just fine too. That's something the devs messed up for that specific game, or it's a problem with your PC.
I have a hard time believing HDR wasn't around in 2017 in some capacity. This sounds like a big that existed on launch, yeah?
I don't know about HDR, but there was a ton of great games released in 2017.
Maybe don't try to use HDR if your PC/monitor/TV can't do it?
My TV from 2017 was HDR, so it was. But HDR monitors would have been pretty rare, so the bug probably wouldn't have shown up in any great numbers.
I don't even run Windows in HDR mode (because it looks awful), but it picks it up anyway and completely fucks the graphics up.