Yeah that is what I said “cheap” too, it doesn’t matter how cheap the NSO is, the games won’t keep in your account if you stop paying, thus they are never really yours.

The best approach was the Virtual Console, but it was dumb that they never respected your previous purchases.

Outstanding even in today’s days!

Or maybe not.

I don’t think I get your question?

What I can tell you is that BOTW and TOTK can get more than 30 FPS once the unit is hacked and overclocked…

If the question is about the Steam Deck I am afraid I can’t answer, I don’t have one.

I haven’t tried since I am still stuck at the ending of BOTW, but the guide I followed to get 60 FPS with it said TOTK would be not much different, which is reassuring to me.

Definitely the consoles/handhelds improve their real potential once they’re hacked!

That’s better FPS than the 15-30(max) it gets on the switch.

That is why the best way to play the Zelda games in original hardware is with a Switch hacked and overclocked, I get close to 60 FPS in many areas (60 in closed areas) and even 40 is a big improvement over 30 lol.

If I had a beefy PC I’d definitely check them out at 120 FPS though.

Oh, so it does get more than 40 FPS while emulating it on the Deck, that is good to hear, I do get higher FPS (closer to 60 FPS) in my original Switch 1 overclocked in BOTW (I heard it is not very different with TOTK), and I don’t get to do the quirks and workarounds that comes with emulation (I do it with the hack itself lol) because well, the game runs natively.

The battery backup you get is definitely better than mine undocked though (although when I do this I play docked), so it is good to hear Switch 1 games aren’t that demanding then.

when steam deck 2 comes out, does steam deck verified get bifurcated where a game can get certified for either system separately?

I’d say yes, at least I would do it that way.

We maybe are not there yet, but we are at the “a bunch of games are not optimized and needs a lot of computing requirements that the current deck just lacks” stage, and if the “Deck Verified” list starts to stall then I would say we should all wish for a revision at least.

Yes, we all know handhelds peaked with the DS (I am totally biased).

Maybe in the Deck 2 pal.

How many FPS and resolution do you get with TOTK in the Steam Deck?

How about the battery life while emulating it?

I dislike a lot of things about the Switch 2, but one thing I give them is that now it has arguments to win in several fields to the Deck (which it should be fucking given lol) and I thought Steam Deck users would be a bit less loud… But I think I was wrong… Regardless I eagerly hope for a Steam Deck 2, and hopefully I’ll be able to get it officially in Mexico ffs.

Nintendo’s online capabilities have always been total ass.

I hope this sentiment changes with Mario Kart World… I mean, I wouldn’t still pay for NSO anyway, but they should really focus in improving this.

They can play by play all the they want but at the end of the day. I can play games I brought back in 1997 on my steam deck they can barely handle going back one generation to the switch and have to use emulation and a subscription service for a handful of their older systems.

I get your point, but to be honest Nintendo couldn’t care less about making it easy or cheap for us to play 1997 games, it doesn’t happen now, and I don’t think it will ever happen, the only reason why they gave some efforts to make Switch 1 games retrocompatible I think is because it would be riots if they didn’t lol.

It is a good argument, but companies don’t care about this, which is sad.