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New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought (www.pcguide.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Source is KeplerL2, who is generally considered a reliable source for insider hardware info, particularly on AMD GPU hardware and AMD SoC for consoles.

Previously I would have personally estimated Steam Deck 2 to release mid 2026-early 2027, but the recent info about an upcoming Steam Machine made me think that maybe I should push back that estimate.

Of course even if we assume this is reliable insider info, a lot can change in couple years, so things can definitely change.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think you can take a device like this and compare AAA titles on it, but even if we do then I think you can only compare it to other handhelds. Right now, checking the competitors they're mostly on par right now for AAA performance. I stand by my other comments, if you're looking for good graphics and good performance, a handheld is not the right device for you - you need to be looking at a desktop with an actual GPU and real power.

Those are real tradeoffs we make by going portable, we expect lower performance so we can get a longer battery life. We cannot have a long battery and great performance in a portable, they go against each other. If others are able to pull it off then yeah go with them, but every bit of performance they add means consuming more battery life.

[–] MiraiShikimi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don't want anything special tho.

Like give me 35-50% better performance and 35-50% better battery life and I am happy. This should be possible, after all iirc the CPU of the deck is 4 generations old and the GPU 2 generations. I mean the battery life we already got with the oled version so only the performance is missing