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| Kyuu said: SteamDeck (PS4 level) is capable of playing most current gen exclusives decently. |
There are increasingly exceptions that are becoming more of the norm though. Steam Deck struggles with Star Wars Outlaws, Alan Wake 2, Indiana Jones, and now Elder Scrolls Remastered, for example.
Basically any game with mandatory ray tracing struggles to keep 30fps on the Steam Deck, unless you break the game by turning off the lighting or you run the titles at like 300p-400p.
I actually think the Steam Deck does better than the PS4 or PS4 Pro would have in these games though.
Where Steam Deck, Switch 2, and even Series S lag behind the 8th Gen refreshes is in the ability to put out native high pixel counts.
Pretty much anything modern though, would struggle on these 8th gen platforms. Like Steam Deck runs something like Starfield "okay", albeit at a very low resolution, but I don't think the 8th Generation consoles would do as well when you compare them to comparable PC's (say a Bulldozer + RX 580 build) that struggles to get a constant 30fps at any resolution (mostly because of the CPU bottleneck.)
And this makes sense. The mid-gen refreshes were designed to play the same exact games as the original 8th Gen twins, but at higher image quality. They weren't designed to scale well with more modern titles than that, which are designed for platforms that accelerate some of the more modern features.
