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With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same opinion. I bought both the original deck and the OLED variant.

I suppose I would entertain things if they came up with some kind of ARM chip more similar to the M series apple silicon, but right now, the thing is BEAST. There is just going to be a limit to how much hardware power and how much battery power can be paired and still keep the thing in the existing form factor.

My current opinion is that right now, its more/ better software that we need. I want a button based key board that works in desktop mode.

So I don't really see a point in a major update until there is a significant hardware redesign.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The point of the Deck versus anything else was that it was common x86 architecture and it runs skinned linux, thus letting us have access to virtually all our library.

Moving to ARM based silicon would massively change things in that regard. We don't want yet another platform to have to worry about ports for. The Steam Deck is a PC and that's it's goal