Steam on nintendo switch?

[✉²⁷ 🔇 RuPaH 📶 🔋]

Is it possible to get steam on nintendo switch?

[MancSoulja]

Of course not. They're rival companies.

[✉²⁷ 🔇 RuPaH 📶 🔋]

MancSoulja lähetti viestin:

Of course not. They're rival companies.

With emulator?

[Brujeira]

RupahFIN lähetti viestin:

MancSoulja lähetti viestin:

Of course not. They're rival companies.

With emulator?

You'd want to run WINE... on a Switch?

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1. No.
2. Why?

[✉²⁷ 🔇 RuPaH 📶 🔋]

Brujeira lähetti viestin:

RupahFIN lähetti viestin:

With emulator?

You'd want to run WINE... on a Switch?

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1. No.
2. Why?

If I wanna game on a fly it would be easier to use switch than a laptop. Thx for answering.

[Sapph]

Switch is neither a pc nor an straight up Android device. (although it uses a modified Android-like operating system)
So running Steam and thus pc games on it is not possible.

[ReBoot]

RupahFIN lähetti viestin:

Brujeira lähetti viestin:

You'd want to run WINE... on a Switch?

.....................

1. No.
2. Why?

If I wanna game on a fly it would be easier to use switch than a laptop. Thx for answering.

Get a Windows tablet. Less hssle than a laptop and runs Steam.

[✉²⁷ 🔇 RuPaH 📶 🔋]

Sapph lähetti viestin:

Switch is neither a pc nor an straight up Android device. (although it uses a modified Android-like operating system)
So running Steam and thus pc games on it is not possible.

Okey, thx

[✉²⁷ 🔇 RuPaH 📶 🔋]

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RupahFIN lähetti viestin:

If I wanna game on a fly it would be easier to use switch than a laptop. Thx for answering.

Get a Windows tablet. Less hssle than a laptop and runs Steam.

Thx for the tip

[Sandalwood42]

Wouldn't you be able to put Linux on the Nintendo Switch and then put the Linux version of Steam on the Switch?

[Brujeira]

luckyboy66666666 lähetti viestin:

Wouldn't you be able to put Linux on the Nintendo Switch and then put the Linux version of Steam on the Switch?

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Still need drivers.

[Cathulhu]

Not that it would help much as it would still not be able to run any game. The Switch does not use an x86 architecture CPU, it uses an nVidia Tegra, which uses the ARM architecture. ARM can not run x86 code, which is something all PC games use.

[washu73]

Cathulhu lähetti viestin:

Not that it would help much as it would still not be able to run any game. The Switch does not use an x86 architecture CPU, it uses an nVidia Tegra, which uses the ARM architecture. ARM can not run x86 code, which is something all PC games use.

The switch uses the T214 Tegra which means it can run x86 code through an emulator , So a switch in theory could run PC games, but in practice you would get the best performance would be from games 5 years or older.

[nullable]

washu73 lähetti viestin:

Cathulhu lähetti viestin:

Not that it would help much as it would still not be able to run any game. The Switch does not use an x86 architecture CPU, it uses an nVidia Tegra, which uses the ARM architecture. ARM can not run x86 code, which is something all PC games use.

The switch uses the T214 Tegra which means it can run x86 code through an emulator , So a switch in theory could run PC games, but in practice you would get the best performance would be from games 5 years or older.

Witcher 3 came out ~5 years ago and that barely runs on the Switch natively, I think you might be a little optimistic about emulation's overhead.

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Brockenstein lähetti viestin:

washu73 lähetti viestin:

The switch uses the T214 Tegra which means it can run x86 code through an emulator , So a switch in theory could run PC games, but in practice you would get the best performance would be from games 5 years or older.

Witcher 3 came out ~5 years ago and that barely runs on the Switch natively, I think you might be a little optimistic about emulation's overhead.

The Witcher 3 isn't emulated, it's compiled natively.

[Kargor]

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Brockenstein lähetti viestin:

Witcher 3 came out ~5 years ago and that barely runs on the Switch natively, I think you might be a little optimistic about emulation's overhead.

The Witcher 3 isn't emulated, it's compiled natively.

Which is the point of his post: if it "barely runs" natively, it's not going to *improve* when it's emulated...

Emulation always comes at a price.