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The Nintendo Switch is the fifth best-selling video game console of all time. It’s also the best-selling console – so far – of the current generation. A quick glance is enough to reveal why. Nintendo has perfectly bridged the gap between handheld and console gaming. You can dock the console and play on your TV in 1080p. Or you can take it on the road …

The Steam Deck might not have the same name recognition as the Xbox or PlayStation – at least not yet. But it’s sold very well since its release back in February, and it’s growing more popular by the week. This marks quite the turnaround for Valve’s hardware division, which had been unproductive for years. In 2015, Valve released the Steam Machine, a Linux-based console that …

The PlayStation 4 is the fourth best-selling video game console of all time. First released in 2013, it sold 117.2 million units over the course of its production. And while it’s since been replaced in Sony’s lineup by the PlayStation 5, it still has a lot of life in it. Games like God of War, Ghosts of Tsushima, and The Witcher 3 remain incredibly relevant. …

The Steam Deck was released in February to a lot of fanfare, and it has not disappointed. In hindsight, this might seem like a foregone conclusion. But at the time, a lot of people questioned Valve’s new game system. They actually had a good reason to. Way back in 2015, Valve produced their first piece of hardware: the Steam Machine. But as it turned out, …

If you’re like many gamers, you value your retro game collection as much as your current games. In the past, manufacturers couldn’t have cared less about older games. Once a title had been released, there was no effort to provide any continued support. But two console generations ago, that started to change. The Nintendo Wii was released with the full library of original NES games. …