Honestly I think it’s probably too soon for the kind of significant performance increase Valve is wanting for the Steam Deck 2. Not to mention that the OLED deck just came out. That said, even if these chips don’t make it to a Deck 2 I’m sure we’ll see them in competing devices.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19261005
I think with games getting more demanding, they will have to release a more powerful Deck in the next 2-4 years, probably closer to 2.
The deck is already too weak to play most modern games. You can’t play Madden 24 with a stable 30 FPS and sports games are perfect for handheld gaming devices.
The ROG ALLY seems to want to release new models every year or so to keep up and if the steam deck doesn’t do the same I fear their sales will plummet until a new model comes out.
I don’t think that Rog Ally is very successful though. Do you have some sales numbers? And releasing a new model every year will add complexity as they will need to support different hardware platforms, etc.
I also agree that it would have been great if the Deck had more oomph, but they do compensate with great software support and real dedication on their side.
What will happen is the Deck will consistently have smoother gaming performance as developers optimize their games for the hardware, just like they do with consoles.
No sense in bothering with that for a piece of hardware that gets a new generation every year.
Also Valve probably doesn’t care if consumers choose a different handheld. Their goal was to create/expand a market to sell games, and they’ve already done that. Their work is basically done at this point. Same idea behind Steam Machines that were 100% developed by 3rd parties.
The Deck is basically a Series S with when you factor in the much lower resolution.