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If valve would compete with Nintendo over the handheld market in actual marketing instead of relying only on word of mouth from gamers and their own ads on steam, they'd sell way more of them. But it being a digital only device is prob the issue here. No idea how an 8 year old would use a Steam Deck
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@Suzu I played PC games as a child and all I needed to do was put the CD in and launch the game.
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@teto @Suzu Yeah, a launcher would come up with several options, but I knew "Install" was what I needed, so I clicked on that, put it where I wanted it and then clicked Next, Next, Next until the blue bar appeared saying it was installing.
Then I'd just play the game, it was that easy. No loggiing in, no extra applications I needed to go through.
Honestly though, when I was 8 (21 years ago), I played Runescape, that meant making an email, account and actually finding the damn Runescape site in the first place. The fact that 8-year-olds nowadays don't know how to go through folders...
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@teto I think even the interface is more confusing to a young kid, and also PC games tend to be made for an older audience.
I'm visiting my mom, and my 9 yo nephew plays a little with my ROG Ally (not the same interface, the Ally runs Windows, but Armoury Crate does a good job of putting a simple interface to just choose a game to play), and I need to be over him all the time to help him navigate and to help him with the games, as even something like Holocure can be a bit overwhelming to a kid like that.
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@teto back in the good old days there were more simple games. I remember when I was young, point and click LucasArts adventure games were all the rage, and those were simple to play. The other games that existed were mostly scary (for a ked) FPS titles and simple platformers.
It seems to me that nowadays there are very few PC games that cater to a young kid audience, when compared to the Switch, for instance. Granted I don't search for those, so I might be biased.
Because if a little kid could put a CD on the PC and play the game, then a kid can navigate a simple menu and click on the game they want to play, the fact the SteamDeck is digital-only is no hindrance at all.
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@Immahnoob @Suzu when I was 8 I was playing Gameboy and that was already plenty of weird tech to me. Esp reading that much, willingly. Wasn't exactly a book kid
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@teto @Suzu Wasn't lucky to have a Gameboy, when I was a kid, I had a NES though, and I played Battle City and Super Mario Bros.
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@teto @Suzu While I cared about Pokemon, I never go to play any as a kid. :kekw: I only got to see episodes sporadically.
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@Immahnoob @Suzu I said reading cuz I remember getting hooked on pokemon yellow
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@Immahnoob @teto same.
I played Pokémon the first time on a PC, with an emulator
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@Suzu @teto After I found out what type of gameplay Pokemon has, I kind of went like "mehhhhhhhh" and never played it. :kekw:
The only emulators I played when I was a kid were those 10000 game packs on torrent sites.
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@Suzu @Immahnoob bruh just give him FireRed. Looks way better with GBA graphics
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@Suzu @Immahnoob Pokemon was fun for the roleplay and discovery/adventure parts.
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@teto @Immahnoob it grew on me over time.
I gifted my nephew a chink handheld that is an emulation machine, and got him into playing Pokémon Yellow, he's enjoying it a lot because it follows the story of the classic anime, which he has already seen.
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@Immahnoob @teto same, I was very disappointed, especially because my first interaction with a Pokémon in a game was Pikachu in Super Smash Bros, and needless to say, for a 10yo kid, going from Pikachu zapping around in Smash to the turn based gameplay of Pokémon is very underwhelming.
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@teto @Immahnoob he has a GBA emulator with FireRed and LeafGreen, but he wants to play Yellow because you start with Pikachu like in the anime
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