{"id":11419,"date":"2022-12-09T21:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/soapbox-the-steam-deck-and-the-switch-arent-rivals-theyre-siblings\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T21:14:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:14:59","slug":"soapbox-the-steam-deck-and-the-switch-arent-rivals-theyre-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/soapbox-the-steam-deck-and-the-switch-arent-rivals-theyre-siblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: The Steam Deck And The Switch Aren&#8217;t Rivals, They&#8217;re Siblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Switch &#8217;em up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a Switch. And I have a Steam Deck. I am a fancy lady with two consoles designed for the kind of people who really like to be horizontal when playing games, which suits me just fine, because I am often to be found being horizontal and\/or playing games. But I see a lot of folks pitting my two expensive rectangles against one another, and although I can see why, I don&#8217;t agree that comparisons are the most helpful way to look at the two of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Steam Deck and the Switch are not exactly apples and oranges, or chalk and chocolate, or whatever your favourite incomparables are. After all, they&#8217;re both the same shape. They both play games. And Valve&#8217;s portable-ish console is <em>clearly<\/em> modelled after the Switch, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-the-steam-deck-and-the-switch-arent-rivals-theyre-siblings\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Soapbox: The Steam Deck And The Switch Aren&#8217;t Rivals, They&#8217;re Siblings<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Switch &#8217;em up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a Switch. And I have a Steam Deck. I am a fancy lady with two consoles designed for the kind of people who really like to be horizontal when playing games, which suits me just fine, because I am often to be found being horizontal and\/or playing games. But I see a lot of folks pitting my two expensive rectangles against one another, and although I can see why, I don&#8217;t agree that comparisons are the most helpful way to look at the two of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Steam Deck and the Switch are not exactly apples and oranges, or chalk and chocolate, or whatever your favourite incomparables are. After all, they&#8217;re both the same shape. They both play games. And Valve&#8217;s portable-ish console is <em>clearly<\/em> modelled after the Switch, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-the-steam-deck-and-the-switch-arent-rivals-theyre-siblings\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}