JEMC said:
I think we're expecting something from Valve that they've never done, and I notice that with the new Steam Machine. They don't go for the latest and best hardware, just good enough to run most of the Steam games. They're kind of like Nintendo in that regard. Even with the original Deck, the device itself and the SteamOS were the main reasons to get it, because hardware wise it wasn't all that great, which was proven barely a year later when AMD came with the Z1 chips that were clearly more powerful. In any case, a Deck 2 bring "only" twice as powerful as the original will not be its biggest problem. The problem will be, obviously, the price. I don't know what's more impressive, that Intel still sends replacements or that the user has stayed with that platform for so long. It's incredible how much emulation, and also the path of AnyPS5 is following, has benefited from AI. Without it, this kind of task would have taken many more years, even decades. |
The thing is, Steam Deck released 2 years after PS5/XBX and it was running on same architecture, along with being "oh wow, I can have Steam on handheld". If they release Deck 2 around the same time as PS6/Helix, with architecture that is 2 generations behind (and that's underestimating how much RDNA5 is supposed to be architectural advancement), and go with it into market that's becoming fairly well served from other manufacturers, all the while having high price (which is most likely, given how much Frame costs and ridiculous price of Deck at this moment)...yeah, I'm just not seeing it.
Hopefully, this is based on some older leak/rumour and they will go with RDNA 5.
