Not coming to PC?

It’s not like these games ever had day 1 PC releases. I think Sony and Disney will have discussions about promoting the upcoming X-Men movie via a PC release but that’s a bunch of years in the future.

Now with merchable, cute animals and a literal companion cube named Frank?

Looks cool. Let’s see if it really stays as exclusive as they recently announced. I prefer keyboard and mouse.

Most non native games run okay under the emulation layers

That’s not the point. The point is commitment of Microsoft to its own platform and that’s lacking ever since the release of the first Surface RT over a decade ago.

Apple doesn’t just not port Apple Chess because it would run okay under emulation. Of course they ported everything. For years Microsoft didn’t even port VS Code despite the fact that even back then it was based on Chromium which already worked fine on ARM platforms.

Surface RT came out in 2012, VS Code in 2015, and the ARM port only in 2020! Madness! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/visual-studio-code-c-extension-arm-and-arm64-support/

Because legislation related to Stop Killing Games has not yet passed.

Every single game except Microsoft Solitaire Collection of the Windows Store.

Other than that, the only ARM platforms Microsoft Gaming Studios support are Nintendo Switch, iPhone, and Android.

If only the world’s largest game publisher, owner of Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Minecraft, and Xbox, would port their games to this Microsoft machine. Too bad this will never happen because Microsoft and that publisher, whose name escapes me at the moment, don’t cooperate.

You’d still be relying on Nvidia’s userspace blob for graphics. As you perhaps know, Nvidia drivers are always only one unimplemented feature away from functional parity with Mesa drivers that Radeons and Intel GPUs use.

Admittedly, not before there is Linux support.

It’s still Nvidia hardware. Fuck Nvidia.

I would assume those people will look at Microsoft’s track record of supporting ARM hardware, realize that the vast majority of Microsoft’s own software still does not run on ARM natively (14 years after Surface RT launched!), and buy a MacBook Pro instead.

I’m voluntarily paying for my LW account but the admins don’t know whose money transfer belongs to which account.

Both exist.

I know. That’s why I asked which one it is. I don’t have access to my Switch 2 for a couple of days and I also don’t have any of these games, so I cannot look for myself.

I have trouble fully understanding the article. Did the games get updates, so they are FORWARD compatible with Switch2 or did the Switch2 OS get updates to be BACKWARD compatible with otherwise unmodified Switch1 games?

Switch1 games receiving updates for hardware in the back would mean Wii U and that’s obviously idiotic and Wii U is not what the article is about.

I assume it’s the developers of the listed games released updates for those for better forwards compatibility with newer hardware and the article author just doesn’t understand how direction works but I’m not 100% certain.

That’s the blogspam version of stuff that’s already documented in the pmOS wiki.

In the US it will be all rusty old death traps.

This description already applies to new Cybertrucks.

Couple things there are many computer users that don’t play games like for example me.

And in which credible statistic are those?

Enterprise Linux is not the same as a container

Of course not but you didn’t specifically say desktop-only Ubuntu/… installs and Ubuntu is still very popular in containers that never see any desktop. Ubuntu also ships Plasma, flagship DE or not.

I’m not sure there are more Steam OS installs than RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu installs.

Of course not, if you phrase it like that. According to your phrasing non-desktop container setups also count but they don’t.

Distributions like Ubuntu also ship Plasma. The preconfigured disk image is called Kubuntu but that’s still Ubuntu and counts as that in Steam’s surveys which I consider the most reliable source of what actual GUI Linux users actually use.

I must admit that I fail to see what good that could do.

In theory the one place where you can enter your Nextcloud or whatever credentials and syncing for calendar, mails, file storage ect. happens automatically everywhere after confirming which services should connect.

It’s not my personal must have feature but when it works, it’s alright.

yea, gnome is “more popular”. doesn’t mean it’s “better”, just that it’s the default environment for some of the most widely-used distributions.

But not SteamOS which has the numbers on its side. Not that Gnome is unpopular but Steam Deck single-handedly pulled in millions of users who at least occasionally switch from game mode to desktop mode (=Plasma) to install emulators and stuff.

Here in Germany the 1TB Steam Deck is €919 and the Ally X is €899. Not a huge difference but still.

I’m happy that I already have a Deck OLED but if I didn’t, at this point I’d rather get an Asus ROG Xbox Ally X and install the latest beta of vanilla SteamOS (the beta officially supports it). Not because I’m a massive fan of that thing but because it’s cheaper at this point.