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The Steam Deck is changing how jaypeters buys games

Buying multiplatform games used to be a simple decision for me: I’d almost always get them on the Nintendo Switch because of how easy it is to play games both on a TV or in portable mode. The Steam Deck has thrown a wrench in that decision-making process.

There’s one important thing I should state up front: I hadn’t owned a gaming PC of any kind until I got the Steam Deck in April. For a long while, I primarily played video games on Nintendo platforms, and I only really began to dig into the PlayStation and Xbox libraries in earnest with the beginning of the pandemic. While I’ve bought a lot of Steam games on sale or in Humble Bundles, I’ve only actually played a handful of them and only on old work laptops or my personal MacBook Airs.

With Switch games, though, there’s no guarantee that they’ll work with Nintendo’s next major console. Right now, I just have to cross my fingers that Nintendo opts to make that console backward-compatible with my Switch purchases. Personally, I’m not counting on it — Nintendo loves to find new ways to resell old games.from my Wii U to the Switch, but to be able to play it with my colleagues

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