| Captain_Yuri said: Pretty much. I will say that S/R isn't really a fault of Asus cause it needs to be built into the OS and considering how shitty MS is when it comes to sleep mode, I am sure they would do a shitty job here too. I do kinda wished Asus maybe worked with Valve to see if they could have Steam OS onto the Ally. Like the SoC isn't that different realistically , it's basically the same underlying arch, just upgraded so Steam OS should work if Valve started supporting it. The other benefit of Steam Deck that no one talks about is pre-shader compilation with a lot of games. |
Asus should have asked MS in a way to get sleep mode to work for their device, but considering how both big and stupid MS is, I doubt that would have ever panned out, in any universe.
I'm not sure about them asking Valve. That's like the time Timmy tried getting help from Valve without asking (via Steam Spy data collection, which was made by Timmy's 2nd in command as we later found out). I wouldn't exactly want to help my competition in a space that was new to me to compete in.
I get that Steam OS is meant to be open, but we've seen what happens when AMD remains open with their tech, but Nvidia doesn't. I certainty wouldn't want Asus to ever get the idea of pulling a shifty move after getting help from someone with open source tech (like I wouldn't dream of wanting to give anyone so much as a mile or a chance to do so, but that's just my thoughts).
Maybe Asus will try to contact Valve, but with their current state of affairs, I'm not sure. I think they'll wait and see how sales pan out over the next 5 months and likely decide what happens from there. They're far more likely to maybe make another iteration, way before Valve counts to 2 though.
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