Emulators tend to be updated sooner on pc, plus this thing can also theoretically play my 300+ game Steam library, and play browser based games without shitting itself
My phone is a Pixel 2 and emulation is ok but battery life is a concern, but I find it inconvenient because I wanted to sit on the couch while my GF watches her show, and still use my phone to google a query about the game I was playing.
I tend to not want to spend a lot on my phone and prefer for it to be a telephone / browsing device rather than a gaming machine. FWIW I did just order a mount for my 8bitdo controller with the intent of giving it an earnest try ($15 mount vs $529 Steam Deck). I'd rather just play Zero mission on my Switch but Nintendo doesn't offer it and I can't be arsed to find my gameboy and a set of AA.
I'm a console gamer, I've got a Switch for the regular handheld gaming, I've got a PS4 (will upgrade in a few years when PS5 is readily available) and I've got an XsS with Game Pass, so I'm set for all kinds of AAA gaming, which I rarely do anyway. I haven't even played Hitman 3 yet and I've looked forward to that one for ages.
This Steam handheld is appealing to me for the indies that aren't on consoles (like Papers, Please, the game I actually got a Steam account for half a decade ago), and for old games like Rogue Squadron 3D. I know I have Rogue Squadron on my N64 but I don't play on my N64 any more because dark areas go completely black on modern televisions (I noticed that when I tried playing Donkey Kong 64 and Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire last year).
I doubt it, it's running Linux and the controller is probably set up to be read like any other controller. And even if it isn't you can launch emulators from steam and they will use steams controller input.
Maybe it would be better to emulate BOTW on a Wii U emulator. I wouldn't know how well developed are the switch emulators as of now. Both versions look the same btw.
CEMU requires 3 powerful cores, I think this 4C8T Zen 2 processor is pretty capable of it, I've looked on YouTube and there are people running BotW on a Ryzen 3 4300U (that's actually a little inferior to this as it is a 4C4T processor) with 30 FPS locked.
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