Today, the portable console sector has two clear representatives, to which a third will try to join in a few days. In terms of experience and market share, we find Nintendo Switch in first place, followed by the ever-thriving Steam Deck, and everyone is waiting to see the result of Logitech G after its debut, which will take place (only in the US and Canadian markets, at least for now) on October 17 .

The future of Logitech notebooks is largely unknown today. It is designed primarily for cloud gaming and its price can be a major deterrent as with its $349.99 will sit between the Nintendo Switch ($299.99) and the Steam Deck ($399). In other words, $50 more than the most established offering in this market and only $50 less for a device that, in addition to perfectly supporting cloud games, also has the power to run many titles locally.

And yes, I know that the designs of Nintendo on the one hand and Valve and Logitech on the other have a factor that clearly differentiates them: game catalog. And this is the great value of the Nintendo Switch for many, as it is the only console that allows access to Nintendo games. Nintendo’s hardware has been revolutionary at times and disappointing at other times, but its biggest guarantee of success, generation after generation, is that it’s the only gateway to the worlds of Pokemon, Zelda, Mario and so on…or at least that’s what Nintendo wants it to be.

However, Emulators have been around for several years. (unofficial of course) from various Nintendo consoles. Technology chases them as hard as it can, but in the end it’s like trying to build a playground gate. It wasn’t expected that one of these developments would gain further visibility thanks to Valve. And it is the popular Nibel tweeter Published a screenshot of a video, now deleted, in which Valve showed off a Steam Deck with Yuzu, a Nintendo Switch emulator, installed open source.

After discovering a bug that will surely not be funny on Nintendo, Valve was quick to remove the video and edit it, to later record a new version of it, in which of course Yuzu disappeared completely. Now Portal 2 occupies the position that the emulator used to have. An important change, because of course, as you can see in the opening image, it was displayed in the list of recently played titles: