It’s a cute little way to get hands-on and see what sets the console apart from its predecessor.
Nobody could get mad at that, right?
Then the bombshell dropped you have to buy it.
The Steam Deck launched alongside Aperture Desk Job, a free-to-playPortalspin-off designed to let you test the new handheld.
It’s cheap, at least.
As reported byVGC, it’ll set you back 990 Yen, roughly $6.12 or 4.65.
“Who Would Pay For A Tutorial?”
“Insane that this doesn’t just get released as pre-downloaded software.
Who’d pay for this??”
“I audibly laughed when they said it wasn’t free,” u/Blayden_Ridge said.
“First Nintendo game to sell zero copies,” u/redditabismal mused.
Nintendo has knocked it out of the park with the Switch 2 Direct.
But maybe not in the way it thought it would.
It’s hardly surprising that the overwhelming sentiment is a bewildered “why?
Or, at the very least, a free download.
