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The exact quote:
It is important to us, and we’ve tried to be really clear, we are not doing the yearly cadence. We’re not going to do a bump every year. There’s no reason to do that. And, honestly, from our perspective, that’s kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that’s only incrementally better. So we really do want to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before we ship the real second generation of Steam Deck. But it is something that we’re excited about and we’re working on.
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) 1•3 hours ago
Might sound kind of stupid, but one thing I’d personally love for the steam deck would be the ability to detach the display from the controls on each side like the Nintendo switch so I could use it like a small tablet in portrait mode. You can already do that, but it’s awkward and bulky.
I’d actually use it for browsing the web on desktop mode and I could probably get rid of my android tablet.
- figjam ( @figjam@midwest.social ) English5•3 hours ago
Nah. One big piece let’s them fit more excellent inside.
- 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮 ( @Emmie@lemm.ee ) 9•7 hours ago
I just sold my 4090 after playing some latest hit AAA games I didn’t like at all and I play only indies on deck, it’s the best gaming device ever
Also it seems the only games I liked from hundreds of aaa graphics eye candies from recent years are rdr2 and cyberpunk and bg3. I unironically think there are fewer great big aaa games nowadays cmv and I am not planning another xx90 card any time soon
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 9•9 hours ago
I really think we’ve already eclipsed that “generational gap” with all the massive increases in efficiency in the last year or so. But I’m glad they’re not updating nonetheless. For a variety of reasons.
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 13•13 hours ago
Presumably this will mean a high-performance ARM CPU (comparable to the Apple M series), along with the dynamic recompilation technology Steam have been experimenting with. (It’s unlikely that Intel or AMD will deliver the generational leap they’re talking about.)
- Cargon ( @Cargon@lemmy.ml ) 2•12 hours ago
Dynamic recompilation technology?
- The_Decryptor ( @The_Decryptor@aussie.zone ) English5•8 hours ago
It’s “FEX”, Valve have apparently been testing it with Proton.
The Asahi Linux team have their own packaging/tooling around it, but theirs is slower at runtime because they have to run the games inside a VM as well.
- Kazumara ( @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•3 hours ago
Their stack is so brutal. It’s incredible how they overcame it all.
ARM instruction set, wrong page size, GPU without documentation for which they reverse engineered a Vulkan and OpenGL driver.
- astrsk ( @astrsk@fedia.io ) 74•19 hours ago
My biggest concern with SteamDeck was that it would become a 1-2 year upgrade cycle device. I don’t expect the hardware to last 7+ years like normal console lifecycles but I’m very glad to hear they’re being patient and aggressively supporting the software side.
- leopold ( @leopold@lemmy.kde.social ) 20•14 hours ago
I dunno, I expect the Deck to last far longer than the average console if anything. It’s a PC, so the games are pretty much guaranteed to keep coming for decades to come, as they have for decades past.
The hardware will fall behind, so I think the point where the newest Triple A games won’t be playable will come within a few years, but I bet whatever visual novels or pixelated indie games release in 2035 will still run just fine on it.
Plus, it’s designed to be repairable, unlike most consoles. And even if Valve stops maintaining SteamOS for the Steam Deck, you’ll still be able to install other distros, so software support isn’t something I’m very concerned about either.
- figjam ( @figjam@midwest.social ) English2•3 hours ago
Two thoughts.
- Space marine 2 didn’t work well so I’m assuming that spankin new games will be hit or miss from here on out.
- AAA games have sucked lately. ive played so many good games on my deck that I may have missed on a larger system.
- xChronoZerox ( @xChronoZerox@lemmy.today ) 8•13 hours ago
It 100% could, everyone thinks they need to be able to generate kratos’ abs, Cloud’s spikes and Keanu…but they don’t. (Removed an extra an)
- bitwolf ( @bitwolf@lemmy.one ) 6•12 hours ago
Agreed. FSR 3 really is amazing and I’d gladly use that to pull a few more years of playing my favorite games on 720p low.
Upscalers are great for portables I just hope it’s not used to excuse poor optimization.
That said I only play fps on my desktop, the steam deck opens up an entirely different class of games for me.
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) 7•14 hours ago
Shoot. My back log on games is so big, I can be happy with this one for another 5 years before I’d need something with more power.
- Messier43 ( @Messier43@beehaw.org ) 1•9 hours ago
Or any new game :D
- secret300 ( @secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•18 hours ago
Honestly can’t see that happening. I think valve will want each upgrade to be significant enough you can feel it
- thejevans ( @thejevans@lemmy.ml ) 51•20 hours ago
Good. Keeping it the same means that the original Steam Deck will remain a target device for game developers for longer.