A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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The article says "no need for steam deck 2". Valve is on record saying they wouldn't do an incremental upgrade, they want to wait until there's a major advance in the available technology.
Even if they were working on it, they wouldn't tell, otherwise a bunch of people would be waiting on the steam deck 2 instead of buying the current one.
They're gonna make a Black Myth 2? We'll shit, I can skip the first one.
Alternatively...
What if they might make a Steam Deck 3? Better skip the 2nd one as well.
We all know there isn't going to be a steam deck 3. Best we can offer is a steam deck 2 episode 2.
The Deck is a beauty, but let's face it, people would "run" to buy a deck 2. We had thousands selling their old handheald when the new oled model came out and it was barely a (very good) mid-gen upgrade.
That's a poor comparison, as Black Myth has just come out and games take a long time to develop. And the Steam Deck 2 literally doesn't exist yet.
If Nintendo announced a Switch 2 tomorrow, saying it's compatible with existing Switch games, do you think sales of the Switch would go up, or down?
Good. The only thing I imagine as being better, would be a framework like way to upgrade it.
Or it being 5 years in the future with significantly more efficient SOC's and batteries
That being said, the Nintendo DS's last US patents should expire in November. Maybe they could do a dual screen?
Maybe they could do a dual screen?
Homer's car
Why not 3 screens and a rear touchpad and a mic for blowing into and a camera attachment and a detachable keyboard and detachable left and right controls and a side crank and proprietary memory cards with their own screen and....
Yes to all. Just want to know what I can use the side crank for?
Winding up your hadouken.
hog cranking simulator 2030
And what would that help with?
Are you telling me you don't use multiple screens while gaming?
That would be absolutely wonderful. If they could somehow future-proof their board design even if you had to have tech skills to replace it, enthusiasts could do it on their own and people who don't want to could take it to the local tech repair shop.
Valve can be lethargic but they generally know when not to fuck with something that works.
That on its own is quite grand.
If a vendor strangely insist on not working on a new product, it's lying.
In this case it's obvious, considering we already got 2 minor revisions of steamdeck HW.
What are the two revisions? I know of the OLED version but what's the second?
I think they swapped out thumb sticks and fans at some point before OLED? It wasn't a major thing.
Wasn't the new motherboard released even before the OLED?
Wasn't the steam deck OLED the incremental upgrade? I thought they did a sight spec bump along with the screen upgrade.
Specs are the same, the APU is just now 6nm instead of 7nm which is more efficient and lets it run a few degrees cooler and therefore boost a bit higher without overheating, and the RAM bandwidth went from 88Gb/s to 102Gb/s.
Consensus seems to be somewhere between 5-10% better fps, which means a game that ran at 50 fps might go up to 55, or one that ran at 28 might finally hit 30.
yeah, but same basic parts. Same APU, smaller node. slightly faster RAM
It’s ironic that Tim Sweeney is against Linux as it would give Epic more independence from Microsoft. Doesn’t he want to avoid “gatekeepers” like Apple and Google.
He just wants the keys
They did sponsor/donate to someone who got the Epic Games Launcher working through wine. Don’t remember the exact details and can’t find a link though.
I think it was a one time grant for lutris or something, not Wine. It wasn't out of their good heart or ethical fibre. It was also a one time thing 5 years ago for so little money that it wouldn't cover even a single developer for a single year.