I went from buying so much Nintendo stuff to 100% piracy after my third Switch broke, I lost all my saves because they force it on internal memory and encrypt that then sue the guy who wrote code to let you back it up locally, and then I found out most of my games played better on Yuzu (and now Eden) than they did on the actual hardware.
The switch is just a glorified android tablet with a couple brackets bolted on for the controllers. It’s not all that surprising that it runs better on an emulator.
If only there were portable devices it could run on. Even if they were way more expensive than the Switch since not being subsidized by the games. The existing options for portable gaming all suck. I like having the Switch in bed and on planes.
I have a GPD Win Max 2. 64GB of RAM, Ryzen 7, RDNA3(.5) GPU…it’s a beast. Fits in my jacket pocket and can run Cyberpunk with raytracing.
It’s expensive as hell, but it’s a really good handheld machine. They even mention emulation on their own site and put up some benchmarks and I can confirm it - I regularly play games with rpcs3 and pcsx2 at a stable 4K60fps.
Only if you’re lucky enough to get one… Also, when I tried a friend’s it felt underpowered, especially running stuff outside of Steam. Not sure if they ever fixed the issues running non-Steam games, though, since that was a few years ago.
I had hoped a new version would come out to improve it and maybe even make enough of them to be available this time 😂. But sounds like it’s still several years out, if ever. I’ve lost my trust in Valve actually delivering things they promise. Burned too many times.
ASUS ROG Ally X, put Linux on it, and you get by all the horrible Windows bloat that makes it crap. It’s great hardware, just the “X-Box” branding and Microslop OS that’s a problem.
I’ve heard that it’s really unstable, even if it runs more efficiently with Linux. Custom hardware like that often needs customized drivers to work right. Maybe one day someone will get it working well, though.
Bazzite has an image specifically for it, and I’m running stock Debian Trixie on my ROG Flow tablet with no issues, don;t own the Ally X yet but I’m definitely looking it it over the Ally or any other as I want to run my own install not a Valve image and the Ally X uses a normal 2280 M.2 rather than the 2230 (which maxes at 2TB) my current ROG Flow or the Steam Deck does.
Yeah I read an article from a few months ago related to putting Bazzite on it (the 2025 version anyway), and the main complaint was the stability as well as minor complaints about the lack of support for some features and having to manually configure some buttons requiring some technical knowledge. It did mention that once it was mostly working it was significantly faster. But not usable as a gaming device quite yet. Not sure how much improvement has happened, but I expect that it will take quite a while to work out the kinks since it’s partly proprietary hardware not really designed for alternate OSes.
Nintendo as well.
I went from buying so much Nintendo stuff to 100% piracy after my third Switch broke, I lost all my saves because they force it on internal memory and encrypt that then sue the guy who wrote code to let you back it up locally, and then I found out most of my games played better on Yuzu (and now Eden) than they did on the actual hardware.
The switch is just a glorified android tablet with a couple brackets bolted on for the controllers. It’s not all that surprising that it runs better on an emulator.
If only there were portable devices it could run on. Even if they were way more expensive than the Switch since not being subsidized by the games. The existing options for portable gaming all suck. I like having the Switch in bed and on planes.
I have a GPD Win Max 2. 64GB of RAM, Ryzen 7, RDNA3(.5) GPU…it’s a beast. Fits in my jacket pocket and can run Cyberpunk with raytracing.
It’s expensive as hell, but it’s a really good handheld machine. They even mention emulation on their own site and put up some benchmarks and I can confirm it - I regularly play games with rpcs3 and pcsx2 at a stable 4K60fps.
Ummm… Steam Deck.
Only if you’re lucky enough to get one… Also, when I tried a friend’s it felt underpowered, especially running stuff outside of Steam. Not sure if they ever fixed the issues running non-Steam games, though, since that was a few years ago.
I had hoped a new version would come out to improve it and maybe even make enough of them to be available this time 😂. But sounds like it’s still several years out, if ever. I’ve lost my trust in Valve actually delivering things they promise. Burned too many times.
ASUS ROG Ally X, put Linux on it, and you get by all the horrible Windows bloat that makes it crap. It’s great hardware, just the “X-Box” branding and Microslop OS that’s a problem.
I’ve heard that it’s really unstable, even if it runs more efficiently with Linux. Custom hardware like that often needs customized drivers to work right. Maybe one day someone will get it working well, though.
Bazzite has an image specifically for it, and I’m running stock Debian Trixie on my ROG Flow tablet with no issues, don;t own the Ally X yet but I’m definitely looking it it over the Ally or any other as I want to run my own install not a Valve image and the Ally X uses a normal 2280 M.2 rather than the 2230 (which maxes at 2TB) my current ROG Flow or the Steam Deck does.
Yeah I read an article from a few months ago related to putting Bazzite on it (the 2025 version anyway), and the main complaint was the stability as well as minor complaints about the lack of support for some features and having to manually configure some buttons requiring some technical knowledge. It did mention that once it was mostly working it was significantly faster. But not usable as a gaming device quite yet. Not sure how much improvement has happened, but I expect that it will take quite a while to work out the kinks since it’s partly proprietary hardware not really designed for alternate OSes.