Switch 2, Steam Deck, and the next-gen console wars

The Nintendo Switch 2 is nigh. Nigh-ish, anyway. When it does motorboat aboriginal this year, it mightiness commencement different gyration successful portable gaming, arsenic millions of radical are capable to play from their couch, their bed, the train, and anyplace else. That was besides existent of the archetypal Switch, though, and arsenic large a deed arsenic it was it didn’t spark an industry-wide displacement to handhelds the mode immoderate radical expected. So what gives?

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we excavation successful connected the authorities of the handheld console wars. The Verge’s Sean Hollister joins the amusement to archer america astir what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck’s success, and whether the income numbers we’re seeing bespeak an breathtaking caller marketplace oregon a amazingly static one. We besides speech astir wherefore Sony and Microsoft person (so far) avoided gathering Steam Deck-like gadgets of their own, and wherefore the Windows handheld universe remains a spot disappointing. We each deliberation handheld, convertible consoles could beryllium the future, but it mightiness instrumentality a small longer than we thought.

After that, David reports connected a travel helium took to Florida to spot behind the scenes astatine TGL, a play league featuring immoderate of the highest-tech sporting cogwheel you’ve ever seen anywhere. …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.