The single reason I bought a Steam Deck instead of a console was because it would let me pirate games. And now I have more than 50 games on my Steam account. I still pirate games but there are games that are reasonably priced and not made by a multi-billion dollar company and I just buy them.
My laptop is pretty dang portable. It may not fit in a pocket or what have you, but I carry a backpack anyway. And does windows provide emulators? I just pulled up a huge list, right on Discover Software Center and there are at least a couple different emulators for every major (and even some minor) console, handheld, arcade, and even a DOS emulator for DOS games. Hell, I even have Space Cadet Pinball on this thing. Yeah I’ve pirated on windows, and it’s not as easy, unless you’re talking about music production software, but that’s a whole other beast. Don’t get me wrong, Steam Deck is awesome and I would love to get one, but $650 is a hefty chunk of change for a lot of people, and considering I’m trying to save up for a Framework, I’m not interested in spending that kind of money right now.
I’m not even sure what the point you’re trying to make is any more, but gaming on a laptop without a table is uncomfortable, which to me makes it less portable than the steam deck.
Other people are allowed to buy whatever they like.
The single reason I bought a Steam Deck instead of a console was because it would let me pirate games. And now I have more than 50 games on my Steam account. I still pirate games but there are games that are reasonably priced and not made by a multi-billion dollar company and I just buy them.
I didn’t even buy a Steam Deck, I just switched to Linux, which is essentially what you did, just expensively.
I mean the steam deck is portable though. It’s not the same thing. Also you can pirate on windows too. It’s actually easier.
My laptop is pretty dang portable. It may not fit in a pocket or what have you, but I carry a backpack anyway. And does windows provide emulators? I just pulled up a huge list, right on Discover Software Center and there are at least a couple different emulators for every major (and even some minor) console, handheld, arcade, and even a DOS emulator for DOS games. Hell, I even have Space Cadet Pinball on this thing. Yeah I’ve pirated on windows, and it’s not as easy, unless you’re talking about music production software, but that’s a whole other beast. Don’t get me wrong, Steam Deck is awesome and I would love to get one, but $650 is a hefty chunk of change for a lot of people, and considering I’m trying to save up for a Framework, I’m not interested in spending that kind of money right now.
I’m not even sure what the point you’re trying to make is any more, but gaming on a laptop without a table is uncomfortable, which to me makes it less portable than the steam deck.
Other people are allowed to buy whatever they like.