IDC estimate Steam Deck has sold ~4 million units, total handheld PC market 6 million

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My Problem with the Steam Deck is that the games I play on my PC are either fully mouse-driven or use a fair chunk of the keyboard, both very hard to properly replicate with a Steam Deck (or any gamepad for that matter). I find the idea very intriguing, but it simply isn't for me.

On that note, I think quite a few were also driven back by the performance of the Steam deck, which is by now more comparable to a low-end APU. That being said, with more modern CPU and GPU architectures (especially the CPU, which is still based on Zen2) and more memory bandwidth Valve could now create a Steam deck that more than twice as powerful for the same power draw.

On the same note, I hope AMD will create some new Z-line chips with less than 15W power draws. The current Z2 lineup is very much lowest-possible effort from AMD (The Z2 Go is a Ryzen 3 7335 with it's full GPU unlocked (12 instead of just 4 CU), the Z2 is just a rebranded Ryzen 7 7840U and the Z2 Extreme a Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360 with the full GPU unlocked (16 instead of 12CU). They really should make a special chip for handhelds, who simply have no need for such stuff like an NPU and more balanced towards the GPU instead of the CPU.