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I pretty much don't have any interest in the Steam Deck (mainly because of its size, ended up selling it for a different handheld) for the fact that the APU in there is starting to really show it’s age. Now there are more competition in the handheld with more powerful APUs at the expense of using a little bit more power.

The Radeon 890m really makes the Deck look more out of date as it has performance close to a Radeon 470/570 or a GTX 1060. Not to mention, we are seeing more games that are unplayable on the Deck or won't play well, and the lack of USB 4 support to use an eGPU doesn't help. After all, this is a computer
in a console form factor, and PC games are rarely optimized well.

That said, I would like to see an SoC using ARM with Radeon graphics, it would improve battery life, but x86-64 emulation on ARM64 is another story, but it’s possible given what Asahi Linux can do playing games from Steam using Proton. As for Qualcomm, it's not even worth considering given how poor it performs compared to Apple Silicon.

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Tom's Hardware · Valve confirms the Steam Deck won't have annual releases — Steam Deck 2 on hold until a generational leap in compute performance takes placeBy Hassam Nasir
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That said, you can already get the SteamOS experience with bazzite already, although Valve already confirmed official support on all ROG Ally models in the future.

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@chikorita157@sakurajima.moe ur last point, that's the dream isn't it haha. Once ARM is viable as a Linux gaming handheld, and that will be some ways off, it's nuts just thinking the kind of form factor we can unlock from that point. No longer would we be stuck with the size of the Deck if good battery life needs to be considered.

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@chikorita157 The fact that there's now an aimable floor to shoot for is great. Might start a shift in gaming to set the expectations that "it should be fully playable on the Steamdeck" as a minimum and "additional eyecandy available for folks who spent car down payment money on a GPU" as a maximum finally.

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@yon The problem with game streaming is latency, and mobile broadband isn’t great with that.

Sure, Deck Fanboys will defend the Deck no matter what, but four cores is probably not enough these days and the GPU is kind of weak on the Deck. At least with the Ryzen Z1 Extreme handhelds, you can dock it and use it as a regular computer for productivity. However, I wouldn't want to use it on the go as a laptop since the screen is smol.

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@chikorita157 I wouldn’t use anything where all the hardware isn’t under the same roof, but I keep seeing people who somehow do it.

That said I was thinking of locally, as on the same local network. If you have a beefy PC that thing has eaten up thousands. An extra $199 or less to stream the games (using the full power of the PC) would probably make it look better than a $999 dedicated device.

Basically, where does it fit in, in people’s lives? Feels like valve needs to figure that out or someone else will.

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@yon You mean a Playstation Portal like device, but instead it’s a Steam Link instead. Probably appeal to those who want to play games away from their computer.

Not sure this will appeal with me. The idea of the Steam Deck and those handhelds is the ability to play the games with you, without being tethered to an internet connection.