That's not how this works. The steam deck could run switch 2 games natively if they were made for it, but they aren't. It needs to emulate the switch 2.
To emulate a device, you need a computer significantly more powerful than the device you're emulating.
Switch 2 is too similar in power to steam deck for it to realistically emulate it.
That’s not entirely true, the steam deck runs switch 1 far better than the actual system. Switch 2 games do not seems that much more demanding than switch 1 for now
I mean if you can play switch 1 game on it as it seems, architecture must be similar, also Nintendo sued multiple emulators in the running of announcing it adding to the possibility of similarity. Nintendo console also have a pretty big dedicated branch of emulation push by fans.
I guess we'll see, but I'm pretty skeptical. The switch 2's GPU has twice the cores as a steam deck so unless they just don't use that power it sounds pretty unreasonable to me that a steam deck will run switch 2 games well along with the overhead of emulation.
Like, yeah the steam deck runs switch 1 games better than a switch 1... But the switch 2 is running switch 1 games at 4k 60fps and 1440p 60
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u/Hades2580 1d ago
Of course you can, I’m pretty sure the deck runs Elden ring and Bg3, I think it can runs Super Mario Jamboree 2