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The thing about this, though, is - the steam deck plays Switch games too. Better than the native hardware does in fact. If the Switch 2 isn't a significant increase in beefiness, the Deck is going to play those too. Nintendo finds themselves going up against a product that directly trounced their specific use case and they're bringing a Round 2 of what got them defeated the first time.
I think the switch, and probably by extension the switch 2 is popular with kids and casual gamers because Nintendo is a household name, but anyone who is looking for a good portable game console and knows what technical specs are is much more likely to still be eyeing the Deck as an investment. Nintendo has famously historically failed to stop the signal on emulation for a single one of their consoles, including the switch, so I don't see that likely to change now.
I wonder if we're going to see another Wii U situation.