I’m thinking about getting a handheld as I’m spending more time away from my house and PC. I don’t want to get buy hundreds of dollars of games to go with it.
3ds xl / switch / Steam deck / Legion?
There seems a lot of options and all have plenty of games to them. Is there an obvious choice that I’m not aware of?
Thanks.
None explicitly support piracy of course. However, I know the Switch is very difficult to conduct piracy on. You might be lucky depending on the firmware, whether you could hack it, but you can’t pirate on a Switch without hacking the firmware.
I personally would go with the Steam deck or the Legion (Linux and Windows respectively), pirating there will be relatively the same as you are used to on PC.
For the switch you need the v1 before they patched the hardware insecurities. https://ismyswitchpatched.com/
Can confirm for the Steam Deck! Not that it supports it explicitly, but Valve doesn’t really seem to care what you do with your hardware lol.
The only limitations are that it’s Linux, so you might run into some trouble with Denuvo/Hypervisor and stuff like that. HV cracks allegedly work on Linux now, but I haven’t tried it yet.
Or get a modchip. Works great for me.
Don’t try doing the install yourself unless you have microsoldering experience. I killed a switch when I tried it myself.