I have a Steam Deck and a Switch and I definitely plan to buy the Switch 2 when it’s available (and I mean actually available, not available on eBay or if I camp in front of a GameStop for three weeks).
There’s a surprising lot of ways that the Switch and the Deck play different roles for me. I prefer handheld gaming now — thanks to the Switch — so it’s nice that I can use the Steam Deck for my PC game backlog but also things like connecting to a gaming PC or console (or emulation or whatever). And since it’s also a Linux PC in disguise — it uses Arch, by the way — you can bounce over to Desktop mode and install basically anything. I’ve even used it for quick work stuff in a pinch.
But even if I sometimes enjoy customizing my Deck and checking FPS, sometimes, I don’t feel like fiddling with settings or care about FPS. As the article notes, Switch is a walled garden and a standard platform so it can’t do as much but every game is going to just open.
So stupid. It’s not the stupidest thing that Trump has done this week by any means but it’s still foolish. There’s the obvious environmental component but there’s also a business/economic argument for increasing fuel standards and phasing out ICE models. The car companies were fine with the Biden CAFE standards because that’s what they need to do anyway.
California was probably doing car companies a favor by banning ICE vehicle sales in 2035 and giving them a nudge. By 2035, ICE vehicle sales are probably going to be banned in half the world (and maybe all developed nations save a few petro-states). Most automakers are probably planning to be essentially EV-only around then because they want to export vehicles and ICE cars are going to be a shrinking, niche market even in the U.S.