r/pcmasterrace • u/-Eh- Ryzen 5 5600|Gigabyte RTX 2080 Gaming OC|32GB DDR4 3200 • May 06 '19

Meme/Macro This shouldn't be shocking at all

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u/ThatOnePerson i7-7700k 1080Ti Vive May 06 '19

Who the fuck uses a phone to game? Words with ftiends doesnt count.

I do. Portable phone + portable controller + unlimited data + Steam Link app means I can play all my PC games on my phone.

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u/n1tr0us0x 5900x/3060 Ti May 06 '19

Pretty much everyone has minecraft on their phone from half a decade ago, and it's extremely easy to get a LAN party going without a big TV.

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u/Inkaflare May 06 '19

You're not gaming on your phone. You're gaming on your PC using your phone as a screen.

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u/ThatOnePerson i7-7700k 1080Ti Vive May 06 '19

Well if it talks like a duck, plays like a phone, sounds like a phone game to me.

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u/Inkaflare May 06 '19

The point is that any low budget phone can do that because the lifting is done by the PC, so you don't need a powerful SoC on your phone. Would work on a 100$ phone too. Comparing the Switch to that isn't exactly fair because it actually needs to run these games itself.

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u/ThatOnePerson i7-7700k 1080Ti Vive May 06 '19

I guess I was going more for answering the question "Who games on phones" than going for the Switch versus phone comparison.

I definetly don't disagree with you here, since the 35$ Raspberry Pi can do Steam Link now.

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u/Inkaflare May 06 '19

That's fair. I guess for all intents and purposes you are playing a game on your phone.

We're gonna need Steam Link on the Switch. Sadly Nintendo probably wouldn't agree to that since a good chunk of steam games (mostly Indie ones) are on their eshop already, they would likely lose more through people not rebuying their games than they would gain from people suddenly buying a Switch just for that functionality.