Yeah it sucks but imagine spending a good chunk of that on a Nintendo Switch that has built in planned obsolescence and will be a poorly supported brick in a couple of years limited to never surpass the potential the original Nintendo developers could see in the device at an architectural level and set into stone by the mass armadas of copyright weapons that Nintendo deploys.

Does the price difference matter as much when you see it in that light? You can always use your Steam Deck as a computer in any way you want to. You can load stuff onto it using the sd card… the nonsense is astronomically less with the Steam Deck I just can’t imagine thinking the Steam Deck wasn’t worth it over the Switch when you actually think about the value either device brings to your life longterm. One is disposable, the other is not.