Isn't that what employee bonuses are for?

@Bahamagamer: Yeah, let's not try & put a massive religious spin on this....m'kay?

Any franchise re-imagining will cost an absolute fortune.

It's basically a complete re-design of game mechanics & brand new assets. That will chew up massive amounts of money & resources, with no guarantee that it'll be a hit at the end of it. The stakes are huge at this level of game development, even for a company like EA.

Trying to predict what the trend in gaming will be in 3 or 4 years time is tricky & the smallest shifts in gaming patterns by the consumer can make or break a games success. It's all about the timing.

Catering to everyone's tastes is also impossible. Some people just want Battlefield 1, some want 2, 3 or Bad Company etc etc. I can't see that happening.

@wolfpup7: Nope. Steam OS is absolutely perfect for this device out of the box, unless you're absolutely desperate to play windows based games that can't get by the anti cheat mechanisms in place for those titles.

I don't lose sleep over that, given the thousands of other verified games available to play.

But yeah, this is a pretty amazing discount for a behemoth device that's already great hardware for the price. What are you waiting for?

Yeah, again, the Steam Deck really paves the way for how this stuff should be done, especially with the end user being able to replace pretty much every component the hardware is constructed of. You might be able to switch parts out but I doubt access into the device will be simple or straight forwards. Also, the replacement parts, if there are any, will be prohibitively expensive.

On top of that, it's pretty much tied to streaming only from games purchased from the PS store, which is really limiting, when you consider what else is out there.

It's a good question though. What is the point of this?

Very much a walled garden experience, which I absolutely do not want these days.

Steam Deck has really spoiled me in that regard & anything less than what Valves hardware offers me can just walk on by.

I think starting the headline with "Don't worry..." makes me kinda....oh, I don't know.....worried?

To the surprise of absolutely no one.

@tavvsocial: You quoted my post verbatim - lol?

A Switch Pro will probably be out of date (again) by the time it releases. The Steam Deck is where you need to be because that is the hardware of choice right now.

On top of that, by the time Nintendo get their act together, Valve will already be looking at releasing a Steam Deck 2 & I have no doubt that it will be something pretty damned special.

A Switch Pro already has it's work cut out to match what the Steam Deck offers but I think it will have to be something monumental to equal what I think the Steam Deck 2 will offer but we shall see.