Comment by Johanx64

For a while Nintendo didn't have a competition in handheld market. If you wanted a handheld gaming device you only had Switch.

Now Steam deck easily competes on fun with Nintendo, because a lot of people have massive decades old steam libraries and constant supply of newest and greatest indie games, and quite a lot of power to play fairly modern titles.

This is hard to compete with because Nintendo likes you to pay for games you've already bought on their platform in past, including old NES and SNES roms (which are super embarassing to ask money for imo).

The only drawback of Steam Deck is that it's a fairly big and bulky.

Buying Switch 2 just for a odd once in every 5 years exclusive Zelda game is a pretty hard sell.