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Only if you ignore the hardware aspect. Nintendo treats the Switch 2 as a fleet of machines they control, and reserve the right to shut them down for any reason as they see fit. It's sort of a non-starter (for me), honestly.

Steam Deck + Heroic + GOG is basically perfect.

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You can use switch 2 offline, with physical games. Nintendo does not require the console to connect to the internet.

Indeed it requires software updates for some games; but even that is the most “innocent” in console space.

Nothing can beat a linux handheld + drm free store in terms of freedom. But apples to apples.


Connecting the Switch 2 to the internet to get those updates exposes you to their kill switch. It effectively can't be used except for a few physical launch titles without placing you under the recourse-free banhammer.



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