Kinda encompasses how I feel when I drop in on a sub Lvl 10 Cadet to help with clearing mission objectives.
Everyone knows what Steam does better, but there are a few things I wish they'd improve :
- more granular touch display
- higher resolution screen + larger higher res touch pad surfaces
- TMR sticks
- a REAL dock with simpler connection of some kind that doesn't require a weird USB-C connected cable dangling off the top (but still would support 3rd party docks with that USB-C port)
- better vibration motors
- pressure sensitive face buttons (this hasn't been done standard since the PS2 era, but would open up the possibility of PROPER PS2 emulation for games like MGS2 and MGS3, which STILL hasn't been done right thanks to the disappearance of pressure sensitive face buttons)
- hot-swappable batteries that can be charged in the Deck or externally if needed
- haptic triggers
- NFC
- built-in microphone array to allow voice chat + isolation
- built-in simple web cam / IR sensor array for face tracking / video chat / streamer setup
- advanced optional stylus with pressure sensitivity / pointer function similar to a wii-mote that can be stored / recharged on top magnetically / wirelessly
Let's be honest : the love is from one single thing - Nintendo's game design.
Shigeru Miyamoto, and all the other major design leads at Nintendo like Masahiro Sakurai have been at this singular company for most of if not their ENTIRE careers and have done nothing but make video games for 40+ years now.
The game industry at large is riddled these days with 20-somethings and interns who've never shipped a game, or who are in survival mode and trying to just keep their heads above water employment-wise.
Many older game devs get burned out and change industry, or quit after a decade or so, and even the ones that stay never stick with the same company because so many cut staff after any game ships... except Nintendo and maybe a couple of other companies out there.
And it SHOWS. Nintendo's game designers - like a 60 year old master carpenter or woodworker or a dwarven master blacksmith - have honed the artisanal craft of game design to a level of mastery otherwise unseen.
Yes Nintendo sucks at pretty much everything else not related directly to game design, but there's a reason everyone tried to make their open worlds more like Breath of the Wild, or why Astro Bot seems to share so many platforming similarities with masterful 3D Nintendo platformers like Mario Odyssey, and why so many companies tried to copy Wii Sports at the height of its popularity.
Even games like Smash Bros have no comparable equal. Yes Sony did their own melee game featuring their IP, but to even try to compare the 2 games is a joke.
Outside of their masterful gameplay design... Nintendo IP is on the same level as Disney. Everyone else isn't even Warner Bros. Animation Studios. They're Hanna-Barbera.
It sucks that Nintendo is being greedy, but that Donkey Kong game DOES look fun and charming as hell and that Mario Kart game is something everyone will still go bonkers for.