[leokennis]

Great that you're having fun. Consider buying a real Switch as well. For me it excels in two use cases:

* Playing (Nintendo) games with the entire family (4 people, all holding a small controller): every Nintendo game is very thoughtfully designed to get 4 people through the "flow" before the game starts (pick your character, set the options etc.)

* Playing games in the portable/detached mode, it is a joy to hold and unlike a tablet you have physical controls. Most games are so much better than your average iPad game (or better said, the "match three" or mindless clicker games do not rise to the surface as easily as on iPad).

[callalex]

It also creates a ton of e-waste for a few hours of entertainment when you already have the compute power available to you in another portable device you already have to own anyway.

[efields]

False equivalence (at least). Software we want to run is not just about raw compute available. Licensing of Nintendo's software aside, what if the pocket computer I have isn't mine? If I buy a Switch, I own it.

Just about everything creates waste. Being into any hobby is expending energy in pursuit of leisure. You're opting into excess from the jump.

[leokennis]

Certainly. I satisfy my conscience by not flying and biking all distances under 20 kilometers.

[illwrks]

I've messed around with emulators in the past. To be honest the tweaking and fiddling with things drove me mad. It was 100 times easier to just switch on a dedicated device and dive into a game.

Then again I'm not buying the latest games or consoles, I've got some other ones that I dive into every now and then for a distraction.

[StimDeck]

Funny, I have Switches and the games I want but still went through the effort to get it running on pc and steam deck. For fun?

[dontlaugh]

If they made a TV-only version, sure. Otherwise I see no point in fragile components I’ll never use just for a handful of exclusives.