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Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: testing Valve's OLED model against the new Nintendo hybrid
The Switch 2 and Steam Deck are both gaming handhelds, but they use different hardware. How do they compare in performance, battery life, screens and controls?
The Steam Deck therefore enjoys higher resolution textures and assets, better baked lighting and enhanced volumetrics, while the Switch 2 boasts improved image clarity. Hogwarts Legacy suffers from distracting frame-time issues on Steam Deck, with modest 50ms drops being commonplace when traversing more complex NPC-filled areas, while the Switch 2 locks to 30fps largely successfully, with only rare interruptions. Likewise, the Nintendo handheld features a lot of exclusive titles, while the Steam Deck's library is larger but (almost) all of its games can be played on a regular PC, to say nothing of other console releases.
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