Switch 2 vs Steam Deck 2026: $339 Cheaper, DLSS Wins

For three years the joke wrote itself. Nintendo sold the closed box you paid a premium to be told what to run, and Valve sold the open one that undercut it: buy a Switch for the walled garden, buy a Steam Deck for a whole computer at a lower price. That joke died on 27 May 2026, when Valve raised the price of the Steam Deck OLED and quietly stopped selling the cheap one. As of this writing, the entry-level Steam Deck you can actually buy new costs $789. The Nintendo Switch 2 costs $449.99. The premium PC handheld is now the expensive option, and the Nintendo console is the budget one. Nobody had that on their 2026 bingo card, and it changes what this comparison is even about.

This is not a spec-sheet drag race with a foregone conclusion. It is two philosophies of what a handheld should be, separated by $339 and pointing in opposite directions. We are going to take both machines apart — silicon, screens, watts, and the thing this site actually cares about, which is what happens when you point them at forty years of back catalogue.

The 2026 Inversion: The Cheap One Is Now Nintendo's

The single most important fact in any 2026 version of this article is the one most briefs still get wrong. The pricing everyone memorised in 2024 is dead. If your mental model still has the Steam Deck as the affordable rebel and the Nintendo hardware as the overpriced toy, you are running on stale data, and every downstream conclusion you draw from it is wrong.

Why Valve blinked

On 27 May 2026, Valve raised the Steam Deck OLED 512GB from $549 to $789 — a 44% jump — and the 1TB model from $649 to $949, a 46% jump. The company blamed "the current state of component costs and other global logistical challenges across the industry as a whole," which is industry-speak for the AI-driven DRAM and NAND shortage that has redirected memory-chip capacity toward data-centre servers and away from consumer devices. Tom's Hardware logged the new numbers the day they landed. Valve had already phased down the cheaper LCD model and pulled it from sale entirely in December 2025, so the $399 Deck that anchors most old comparisons is simply not for sale anymore.

The market noticed. An analysis reported by TechTimes in July 2026 estimated Steam Deck sales fell roughly 82% after the hike, dropping the hardware out of Steam's top five best-sellers to somewhere around fourteenth. A 44% price increase during a cost-of-living squeeze does that. The Deck did not get worse; it got expensive, and "cheaper than a gaming laptop" stopped being the pitch.

Why Nintendo is only briefly cheaper

Before you file this under "Nintendo the value champion forever," read the fine print. The Switch 2's $449.99 is a limited-time truth. Nintendo has confirmed that on 1 September 2026 the U.S. MSRP rises to $499.99, blaming the same "changes in market conditions" — again, the memory crunch — that it expects to persist over the medium-to-long term. The official price-revision notice spells it out, with Canada rising to CA$679.99 and Europe to €499.99 on the same date.

So the window is closing. At the moment of writing the Switch 2 undercuts the Deck OLED by $339. After 1 September it undercuts it by $290. Either way the direction is the same and the direction is new: the Nintendo box is the cheap one, by a margin large enough to buy a second controller, a year of online, and a stack of games with the change.

What this comparison is actually about now

Strip out the old price assumption and the fight reframes itself. This is no longer "more raw power per dollar," because the cheaper machine now also wins several of the objective image-quality tests. It is a straight philosophical split, and the industry press has converged on exactly that framing: Nintendo exclusives and plug-and-play simplicity on one side, PC openness and a bottomless library on the other. CNET put it cleanly — the Deck remains an open ecosystem that lets you buy from multiple stores, while the Switch 2 is a tighter, Nintendo-controlled platform. The rest of this article is about whether that openness is worth $339 to you, and the answer depends heavily on whether you are here to play the newest Mario or to run a PlayStation 2 you dumped yourself.

Price and Availability: $449.99 vs $789

Let us get every number on the table in one place, because the pricing is the whole story and the pricing is a moving target. Prices below are U.S. MSRP as of late July 2026.

The current sticker prices

The delta that matters: the cheapest Switch 2 you can buy is $339 under the cheapest Steam Deck you can buy. Even the day the Switch 2 rises to $499.99, the gap is still $290. There is no configuration of the current lineup in which the Deck is the affordable choice.

Regional pricing and the moving target

Outside the U.S. the picture rhymes. TechRadar lists the Switch 2 at £395.99 / AU$699.95 alongside its $449.99 U.S. figure. The Deck OLED, post-hike, runs roughly €779 / £649 for the 512GB and €919 / £849 for the 1TB in Europe and the UK, with Canada and Australia proportionally worse. The Nintendo increase on 1 September is global too — €30 up in Europe, CA$50 up in Canada — so if you are buying either machine and live outside the States, the calendar matters as much as the storefront. If you are Switch 2-curious, buying before September saves you fifty dollars for doing nothing but acting sooner.

Where the $399 Deck went

A lot of comparisons published in 2026 still quote the $399 LCD Steam Deck as the budget entry point. It is not an entry point; it is a discontinued product. Valve stopped making it, retail stock dried up by early 2026, and what remains is the used market — where, ironically, prices have firmed because it is now the only sub-$500 Deck in existence. Buying a used LCD unit to dodge the OLED's price is a defensible move if you find a clean one with battery health intact, but you inherit Wi-Fi 5, a 60Hz LCD panel, the older 7nm "Aerith" APU, and no warranty. It is a workaround, not the comparison. For a like-for-like fight in 2026, it is Switch 2 versus Deck OLED, full stop. If your goal is genuinely the cheapest way into portable retro rather than either of these, a $90 dedicated emulation handheld like the Miyoo Mini Plus is a different and much smaller conversation entirely.

Specs on Paper: T239 Ampere vs Sephiroth RDNA 2

Two handhelds, two completely different silicon philosophies. Nintendo went with a custom Nvidia part optimised for low-power efficiency and machine-learning upscaling. Valve went with an x86 PC-on-a-chip that runs anything an actual PC runs. The spec sheet reads like a category error, because it partly is.

The full spec sheet

The silicon, decoded

The Switch 2's T239 is built on Samsung's 8nm process and pairs eight Arm Cortex-A78C cores — clocked around 1 GHz once you subtract the cores Nintendo reserves for the OS — with an Ampere GPU carrying 1,536 CUDA cores. Its party trick is DLSS: dedicated tensor hardware that upscales a low internal resolution to a sharp 1080p using a trained model, which is why a 1.7-TFLOPS handheld can output a cleaner image than a rival with similar raw numbers.

The Deck OLED runs AMD's "Sephiroth" APU, a 6nm die-shrink of the original Zen 2 plus RDNA 2 design. Note the name: a lot of spec sheets, and more than one brief, still call the Deck's chip "Aerith." Aerith was the 7nm silicon in the discontinued LCD model. The OLED you buy today runs Sephiroth. It is four Zen 2 cores and eight threads boosting up to 3.5 GHz, feeding an eight-CU RDNA 2 GPU. Crucially, that CPU is x86 — the same instruction set as a desktop — which is why the Deck runs native PC games and, as we will get to, obliterates the Switch 2 at the one workload this website cares most about.

The specs the brief got backwards

Two corrections worth making, because they invert conventional wisdom. First, wireless: the Switch 2 has Wi-Fi 6, and the Deck OLED has Wi-Fi 6E. If you have read that the Nintendo hardware has the networking edge, that comparison was against the old LCD Deck's Wi-Fi 5. Against the OLED, the wireless advantage flips to Valve. Second, and more amusingly: the cheaper machine has the sharper, higher-resolution screen but an LCD panel, while the expensive machine has the lower-resolution 1280×800 display but a genuine HDR OLED. The Switch 2's 7.9-inch 1080p LCD wins on pixel count and size; the Deck's 7.4-inch OLED wins on contrast, black level, and color. There is no clean "better screen" verdict — only a resolution-versus-panel-tech trade, and which side you land on is a matter of taste, not numbers. For a broader look at how the Deck stacks up against other PC handhelds on exactly these axes, we ran the Deck against the ROG Xbox Ally after the same price flip.

Raw Performance: DLSS 1080p vs FSR 720p

Here is where the cross-architecture weirdness pays off or bites, depending on the game. The headline is that in modern third-party ports, the Switch 2 frequently produces the cleaner image despite lower raw compute, because DLSS is simply better at upscaling than the FSR the Deck falls back to. But framerate, clarity, and CPU behaviour tell three different stories.

What Digital Foundry measured

The most-cited technical breakdown of this matchup is Digital Foundry's face-off, echoed across Nintendo Life and GoNintendo. Their Hogwarts Legacy test is the cleanest apples-to-apples data point available.

Digital Foundry's summary was that the Switch 2 "ran Hogwarts Legacy better overall, keeping it locked to a mostly stable 30fps," while noting the Deck rendered better raw textures and lighting when you froze the frame. In motion, DLSS's 540p-to-1080p reconstruction reads as sharper than FSR's 480p-to-720p on the smaller, denser Nintendo panel. PC Gamer framed the whole contest as "a closer battle than I expected," which is the honest reaction of anyone who assumed the PC handheld would walk it.

The TFLOPS trap

You will see the Switch 2's 3.07 docked TFLOPS thrown around as proof it "doubles" the Deck's 1.6. Do not fall for it. That 3.07 figure is the docked clock; unplugged, the Switch 2 runs closer to 1.71 TFLOPS, which is a rounding error away from the Deck's 1.6. More importantly, comparing FP32 TFLOPS across Ampere and RDNA 2 is comparing two different accounting systems — Nvidia's Ampere doubled its FP32 throughput on paper in a way that inflates the raw number relative to real-world rasterisation. PCGamesN's proxy benchmarking, using desktop cards as stand-ins, put the Switch 2 GPU around 53% faster in theory, roughly 29fps versus 19fps in their model — but that is a theoretical ceiling, not a promise, and it evaporates the moment a game is CPU-bound rather than GPU-bound.

The CPU nobody benchmarks

Every framerate chart measures the GPU. Almost none measure the CPU, and the CPU is where the Deck quietly wins the fight that matters here. The Deck's Zen 2 cores boost to 3.5 GHz of desktop-class x86; the Switch 2's Cortex-A78C cores sit around 1 GHz of mobile Arm. For polished, GPU-bound AAA ports, that gap barely shows. For anything that hammers a single thread — physics-heavy simulation, and above all emulation of older consoles — it is decisive. Hold that thought, because it is the hinge of the entire retro verdict a few sections down. If you want the bigger economic backdrop to why PC-class hardware keeps winning these arguments, we mapped out how PC gaming overtakes console on revenue by 2028.

Battery Life: 19.7Wh Efficiency vs 50Wh Endurance

This is the most counterintuitive category in the comparison. The Switch 2 draws half the power. The Steam Deck usually lasts longer. Both statements are true, and the reason is a battery two and a half times the size.

The runtime numbers

Read the Hitman row twice. It is the one game where the Switch 2 out-lasts the Deck, because a heavy PC port pushes the Deck's thirstier APU hard enough that its bigger cell cannot compensate. Everywhere else, the 50Wh battery does the heavy lifting.

Efficient but small vs thirsty but large

The arithmetic is clean. In Hogwarts the Switch 2 sips 7W but only has 19.7Wh in the tank: 19.7 ÷ 7 ≈ 2.8 hours, which matches the measured 2h45m. The Deck guzzles 14W but carries 50Wh: 50 ÷ 14 ≈ 3.6 hours, i.e. the ~4h observed. So the Deck wins runtime by being fat, not by being efficient. Nintendo built the more thermally and electrically elegant machine; Valve built the one with more fuel. CNET puts Nintendo's official estimate at roughly 2 to 6.5 hours and Valve's at 3 to 12, and those wide ranges are honest — both depend entirely on the workload.

Charging, sleep, and the real-world feel

Numbers aside, two experiential notes. First, the Switch 2's efficiency shines brightest on first-party software, where Nintendo tunes the game to the silicon and you can genuinely see 5 to 6 hours out of something like a 2D platformer or a JRPG — close to the 6.5-hour rated ceiling. The Deck almost never sees its 12-hour figure outside of the lightest indie or emulated 8-bit content. Second, both machines nail instant sleep-and-resume, but the Switch 2's is more appliance-crisp: close it, forget it, open it days later, still there. The Deck's SteamOS suspend is excellent and has improved, but it is a Linux PC pretending to be a console, and once in a while it reminds you of that. If you value "never think about it," Nintendo has the edge; if you value "still playing on a long-haul flight," the Deck's 50Wh wins.

The Retro Verdict: Open Cannon vs Locked Box

Now the section this site exists for. Every other category has been a genuine trade — sharper here, longer there, cheaper on one side, more open on the other. This one is not a trade. For retro gaming and emulation, the Steam Deck does not win on points; it wins by knockout, and the price premium does not change that.

What the Deck actually runs

The Deck is a full x86 PC running Linux, which means it runs the entire open emulation stack. One-click installers like EmuDeck, plus RetroArch and the sandboxed RetroDECK on Flathub, cover everything from the NES up through the sixth generation. And because you have unlimited save states, RunAhead latency reduction, custom CRT shaders, and local netplay, you are not merely playing old games — you are playing them better than the original hardware did.

The Deck's Zen 2 CPU is the unsung hero here. Remember that GHz gap from the performance section? PS2 and GameCube emulation is heavily CPU-bound and single-thread sensitive, exactly the workload where 3.5 GHz of x86 humiliates 1 GHz of Arm. The Switch 2 might win a GPU benchmark; it would lose a PCSX2 stress test badly, if it could run one at all — which it cannot. If you want to go even deeper than SteamOS's default setup, a dedicated distro like Batocera, which we walk through installing in about 30 minutes, turns the Deck into a pure emulation appliance.

What the Switch 2 offers instead

The Switch 2's answer to "retro" is Nintendo Switch Online — a curated rental library, not an emulator you control. You get NES, SNES, Game Boy, N64, and Genesis apps, and, exclusive to the Switch 2, a GameCube app that requires the pricier NSO + Expansion Pack tier at around $80 a year. Its launch trio was The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and Soulcalibur II, with 2026 additions including Super Mario Sunshine and Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness. Digital Foundry noted these run at roughly double the original resolution but with some multi-frame input latency baked in.

What you do not get: no game you own on cartridge or disc — only what Nintendo chooses to offer that month. No custom shaders. No user-run netplay. No unlimited save states — just per-title suspend points and rewind on supported games. And critically, as of mid-2026 there is no public homebrew scene for the Switch 2 at all; the enthusiast forums are actively telling people not to discuss exploits, which tells you where the platform's security stands. The Switch 2's retro offering is a well-produced museum with a turnstile. The Deck's is the whole warehouse with the keys left in the door.

The law and the ledger

Since this site knows the law: emulation itself is legal, and has been settled U.S. case law for a quarter-century. Sony v. Connectix (2000) and Sony v. Bleem upheld emulator development and the reverse-engineering behind it as fair use. What is illegal is distributing copyrighted ROMs and BIOS files — the software, not the emulator. Dump your own cartridges and you are on solid ground; download a ROM set and you are not. That distinction is the entire legal architecture of the hobby.

The ledger is grimmer for Nintendo's own emulation, though. Switch emulation is effectively dead everywhere: Yuzu settled with Nintendo for $2.4 million and shut down in March 2024, and Ryujinx ceased development late that same year. So there is no reliable way to emulate Switch or Switch 2 software on any hardware, Deck included. The Deck's dominance is over the previous forty years of consoles — not current-gen Nintendo. Here is a minimal desktop-mode setup to turn a fresh Deck into that warehouse:

# Steam Deck — Desktop Mode (KDE), Konsole
# 1. Confirm you are on SteamOS (Arch-based)
cat /etc/os-release

# 2. Install the sandboxed all-in-one retro frontend
flatpak install -y flathub org.retrodeck.retrodeck

# 3. (Alternative) EmuDeck installer — run the GUI script
#    Download from emudeck.com, then in Konsole:
chmod +x ~/Downloads/EmuDeck.desktop

# 4. Point your emulators at ROMs you dumped yourself,
#    add them to Steam via Steam ROM Manager, return to Game Mode.
# CRT shaders live in RetroArch: Settings > Shaders > Load.

For a full walkthrough of the setup with images, Retro Game Corps's Steam Deck emulation starter guide remains the reference document.

Library and Openness: Walled Garden vs Whole PC

Retro aside, the two machines draw from fundamentally different game libraries under fundamentally different rules. One is curated and exclusive; the other is vast and open. Neither is strictly better — they answer different questions.

Two libraries, two rules

The Switch 2's pitch is exclusives you cannot legally play anywhere else: Mario Kart World, the mainline Zelda and Metroid entries, Pokemon, Splatoon, Smash. If your want-list is heavy with first-party Nintendo, the Deck cannot help you — those games do not exist on it and, given the emulation situation above, will not. The Switch 2's software cadence is also relentless; Nintendo's June 2026 Direct alone teased an Ocarina of Time remake, and that is the sort of thing that sells the hardware on its own.

The Deck's pitch is the opposite: it runs your whole Steam library, plus Epic, GOG, itch, and anything else you can install on a Linux PC via Proton. CNET makes the point that this open ecosystem — buy from multiple stores, install what you like — is structurally the Deck's biggest advantage over the Nintendo-controlled Switch 2. You will never wait for a game to be "ported" to the Deck the way you wait for the Switch; if it runs on PC, it very likely runs on the Deck, often with a green Deck Verified badge telling you so in advance.

Backward compatibility

Both machines respect your past, differently. The Switch 2 is backward-compatible with the great majority of the original Switch's library — north of 90% of titles run, many with performance or resolution boosts, so a decade of Switch 1 games carries forward. The Deck's "backward compatibility" is simply the entire history of PC gaming, from last week's release back to DOS-era software through built-in compatibility layers. If your existing library is on Steam, migrating it costs nothing but download time.

Desktop mode: the Deck is a computer

This is the openness dividend the Switch 2 can never match. Flip the Deck into desktop mode and it is a full KDE Plasma Linux PC: a web browser, a file manager, a terminal, mod managers, external monitors, dual-boot Windows if you insist. You can install software Valve never blessed, tweak per-game TDP and framerate caps, and fix things yourself. The Switch 2 is a sealed appliance — beautifully finished, utterly closed, exactly what most buyers want and exactly what a tinkerer finds suffocating. The gap between "console that plays games" and "computer that also plays games" is the $339, distilled.

Six Buyers, Two Machines: Who Fits Where

Enough abstraction. Here is who should buy what, in concrete terms. If you see yourself in a scenario, that is your machine.

Buy the Switch 2 if…

1. You are here for Nintendo exclusives. Mario Kart World, Zelda, Metroid Prime 4, Pokemon — these are the only place to get them, they are tuned to run beautifully on the hardware, and no amount of Deck horsepower conjures them into existence. This is the single most common correct answer.
2. You play on the couch with other people. Detachable Joy-Con 2, a slick TV dock, and a first-party catalogue built around local multiplayer make the Switch 2 the better party and family machine by a wide margin. The Deck is a fundamentally single-player-in-your-hands device.
3. You want the most game for the least money and the least fuss. At $449.99 it is $339 cheaper, boots straight into games, never needs a terminal, and "just works." TechRadar still calls the Nintendo hardware "the king of easy, fun gaming," and for the mainstream buyer that is the whole ballgame.

Buy the Steam Deck OLED if…

1. You are a retro and emulation hobbyist. Everything in the retro section above. Save states, CRT shaders, netplay, NES-through-PS2 coverage, and a CPU that can actually emulate the hard stuff. For this reader the $339 is not a premium; it is the price of the only machine that does the job.
2. You have a large Steam backlog. If you already own dozens of PC games, the Deck plays them on day one at no extra cost, syncs cloud saves with your desktop, and turns a shelf of "someday" purchases into a portable library. The value math flips entirely once you count games you already own.
3. You are a tinkerer. Desktop mode, Linux, mods, per-game tuning, dual-boot, homebrew — if the phrase "it is a whole PC" made you lean in rather than recoil, the Deck is built for you and the Switch 2 will bore you within a week.

The edge cases

Two more. The long-haul commuter who plays lighter fare will get more hours out of the Deck's 50Wh battery, but the frequent quick-session player who values instant, appliance-grade sleep leans Switch 2. And the person who can afford both should own both — they genuinely do not overlap. A Switch 2 for Nintendo's software and the couch, a Deck for the Steam backlog and the emulation warehouse, is the enthusiast's endgame and the reason so many reviewers refuse to crown a single winner.

Migration Guide: Moving Between the Two

If you already own one and are eyeing the other, here is what actually transfers, what does not, and how to make the jump cleanly. The blunt truth up front: there is no save-game bridge between these platforms. You are not migrating a library so much as building a second one.

Leaving Nintendo for the Deck

Most people making this move want the open library and the emulation. The process:

1. Update SteamOS first. Out of the box, run all system updates (Settings > System) before anything else, so you are on the current SteamOS with the latest Proton.
2. Sign in and turn on Steam Cloud. Your Steam purchases and cloud saves appear instantly; nothing to re-buy.
3. Add a microSD card. Storage fills fast once you install games and ROM sets. A high-endurance card in the slot roughly doubles your capacity for pocket change.
4. Install the emulation stack. EmuDeck or RetroDECK, per the code block above, plus Steam ROM Manager so emulated titles show up in Game Mode like native games.
5. Check Deck Verified ratings. Before buying a new PC game to play portable, glance at its Deck Verified badge to know it will run well before you spend.

# Verify a fresh Deck is ready to migrate to
cat /etc/os-release            # confirm SteamOS build
flatpak update -y              # pull latest app runtimes
df -h /home                    # check free space before big installs
# Then: install EmuDeck/RetroDECK, add microSD, import your dumped ROMs.

Going the other way (or adding a Switch 2)

Coming from the Deck to the Switch 2 is simpler because the Switch 2 is an appliance. Buy games physically or on the eShop; there is no library to port, just purchases to make. If you owned an original Switch, its games carry over via backward compatibility (90%+ of the catalogue). Turn on Nintendo Switch Online if you want cloud saves and the retro apps, and the pricier Expansion Pack tier if you specifically want the GameCube library. That is essentially the entire setup — closed platforms are easy to enter and hard to leave.

What does not survive the move

Set expectations honestly. Nintendo save data is locked to the Nintendo account and platform — it does not come to the Deck, ever. The Deck cannot legally or practically play Nintendo first-party software. There is no cross-buy, no shared wallet, no unified friends system. Whichever direction you migrate, you are starting a fresh library on the new machine and keeping the old one for what only it can do. That is precisely why the "own both" crowd exists.

Pros and Cons, Tallied

The whole comparison, compressed. Read these two tables and you have the argument.

Nintendo Switch 2

Steam Deck OLED

The tie-breakers

If price and Nintendo software decide it, stop reading and buy the Switch 2. If openness and emulation decide it, buy the Deck and do not flinch at the $789. The specs are close enough that the platform philosophy, not the benchmark, is the real deciding factor — which is exactly what PC Gamer meant by "a closer battle than I expected," and why GamesRadar's reviewer admitted to "wildly underestimating the Switch 2" going in.

The Verdict: What the Numbers Actually Say

Two machines, one honest answer that splits depending on who is asking. Let us not pretend there is a universal winner; there is a right answer for you.

For most people, in 2026

The Switch 2 is the value pick and the mainstream pick. It is $339 cheaper today (and $290 cheaper after September), it produces the cleaner image in a lot of third-party ports thanks to DLSS, it has the exclusives that sell handhelds, and it demands nothing of you but the willingness to press a button and play. IGN's 7.0 review called it "bigger and better in every sense," and for someone who wants a games machine rather than a project, that is the correct instinct. The Deck's price hike did not just raise a number; it moved the Switch 2 from "pricey Nintendo tax" to "the affordable one," and that repositioning wins it the general recommendation outright.

For this website's readers

But you are not most people; you are here on a retro site, and for you the verdict inverts and hardens. For emulation, the Steam Deck OLED is not merely better — it is the only one of the two that does the job at all. Unlimited save states, CRT shaders, netplay, RunAhead, NES-through-PS2 coverage, a desktop-class x86 CPU that can actually chew through GameCube and PS2, and a legal open-source stack (emulation upheld by Sony v. Connectix) that Nintendo's locked box cannot touch. The Switch 2's answer to retro is a rented, curated museum; the Deck's is the whole warehouse with the keys in the door. At $789 that openness costs a real premium — but if retro is why you are reading, it is $339 well spent, and it is not close.

The one-line answer

Buy the Switch 2 if you want Nintendo's games and the cheapest, simplest path to playing them. Buy the Steam Deck OLED if you want an open library and the best portable emulation money can buy, and you can stomach the post-hike price. And if you can afford both, own both — because in 2026 they finally stopped competing for the same job, and the only real loser is the old assumption about which one is expensive. Engadget still rates the Deck the best-balanced handheld overall while admitting it "shows its age in 2026"; the Switch 2 is the newer, cheaper, more convenient machine that cannot emulate its way out of a paper bag. Pick your priorities. The hardware finally makes you choose honestly.