Check out this modder’s doomed quest to turn a Nintendo Switch into a Steam Deck

It’s hard for Valve’s Steam Deck to escape comparisons to Nintendo’s dominant hybrid console: we’ve found that we use our Decks like better, beefier Switches, and skin manufacturer Dbrand just came out with a parodical Switch-themed vinyl wrapper for the Deck. YouTuber SpikeHD went in the other direction though: what if you tried to make a Switch into a Steam Deck?

Short answer is “you can’t,” but god bless him, SpikeHD tried to install Steam on Nintendo’s aging megahit handheld. The resulting 12-minute video is a fascinating look at the digital bowels of the Switch, stripping away that “Nintendo Magic” in an absurd science experiment and revealing the sterile, ordinary computer underneath.