Hello, i’m a simple man, i enjoy playing only a few games, and one of them is civlization

I want to get a fixable* switch, fix* it as hard as possible to be able to play Civilization VI (and maybe skyrim?)

My questions are:

  • Will i face any issues in particular about this game?

  • how long would the battery last

  • performance?

*(Fixable/fix, because all the switches are broken, they don’t allow you to pirate out of the box😂)

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Since this is the Switch community maybe this is a dumb question, but wouldn’t a Steam Deck suit your needs a bit better?

    As to not be completely useless; I get about 2-3 hours on my Switch when not docked. Haven’t spent a lot of time in Civ or Skyrim though, particularly not undocked, so I can’t say for sure there, but I’d assume around 2 hours at least, provided the battery is still good.

    • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Steam deck is about two times more expensive 😮‍💨

      Also it’s bulkier. And about the battery, switch is arm, so supposed to be less power hungry.

      Like that

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Ah that’s fair.

        I did some Googling and it seems like the newer versions of the Switch (I didn’t even know there were newer versions) have better battery life than the OG. Definitely agree that the Switch is a wonderful platform, if only it wasn’t so damned locked down.

        To be fair that goes for pretty much all platforms. If I buy the blasted thing I should be able to do whatever I want with it, I feel. Makes no sense that Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft can still control the system when they no longer own it.

  • Boinkage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I second the other commenter. If the games you are interested in are civ 6 and Skyrim, and your question includes the word “performance”, a steam deck would serve you better. If you want to play super Mario and Zelda and performance doesn’t bother you, then buy and jailbreak a switch.

  • 520@kbin.social
    1·
    8 months ago

    Bear in mind that the Switch version of Civ6 is a port of the iOS version, not the PC version (but still quite good). If you have an iDevice, consider going that route

    • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Android has it too, and I played it a lot on different phones. But recently I started to go full open source/minimalism, but pirating requires different shady versions and app to be installed

      • 520@kbin.social
        1·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, unless I was cracking it myself I just can’t justify pirating on my phone. Too much sensitive shit on it lol