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With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The steam deck has only been out for two years. It's too soon to be thinking about successor.

I would rather have Valve follow a consistent release schedule as Valve should focus more on software improvements and features to squeeze out more potential from the original steam deck and have the third party developers target one handheld hardware baseline for every 5-7 years.

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Agreed. The Deck is plenty powerful for most games, and even a lot of newer releases play fine with lower graphics settings, and with the Deck's screen size and resolution, lower settings aren't noticeable in most games.

I've seen a lot of reviewers also mention that they don't notice or mind lower framerate on the Deck, either, and I agree; there's something about the form factor that makes the framerate less important.

Releasing too many SKUs will just confuse the market and lead to fragmentation. 4 years is the absolute soonest I will think higher specs might be justified.

The OLED model was a good choice; a nominal increase in performance with a fantastic display and the exact same shell dimensions. Developers don't need to target multiple devices if they're trying to make their games work on the Deck, and accessories all still work (aside from maybe screen protectors, I guess?)