Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’
Deck Pro might be years away.
They don't want to compromise battery in favor of performance and I agree. With smaller games like Hades or cult of the lamb my steam deck battery will last and last. On more demanding games like cyberpunk or Armored Core I get a little over an hour out of it best case scenario.
Beefier graphics hardware will only make that issue worse.
I so often use mine plugged in as I'm not walking or in a park, I'm on a bus or train which can often have a plug, so not much of an issue there, however I'm not playing high-end games, it's so good for stuff like Hades and whatnot.
Personally I don't plan on playing big games like these on the go anyway, so battery life isn't going to be a problem.
I was thinking of getting a docking station with an m.2 slot for those bigger games to play when I'm home.
Only waiting for new generations of GPUs and CPUs can help there I guess, those usually push things a lot in a performance per wat comparison!
They don’t want to compromise battery in favor of performance and I agree
The battery life is already 5 seconds. No need to make the problem worse.
I'm not in a rush, and stable specs makes it easier for devs to get their games to work and Valve to improve Proton.
The next version is definitely on my radar, but for now my desktop works well enough.
The thing that made me reconsider buying one is the screen. Make an OLED version and I‘m gonna get one. I‘m not worried about the performance, I‘d get a deck for stuff like Dead Cells and Spelunky, not for stuff like Cyberpunk.
If they made an OLED version and offered replacement screens for burn-in cases in x years, that‘d be absolutely amazing.
I think you can upgrade the screen
Fine by me, just keep supporting the Steam Deck and being awesome. Love you Valve!
Kinda wonder what kind of effect a more powerful nintendo device will have on the whole ecosystem. Nintendo devices are automatically probably going to run smoother watt for watt just because developers will likely prioritize optimisation for that device, so it's all a bit of an uphill battle for the steam deck there
Nintendo never makes anyhow powerful devices, they juat rely wntirely on developer optimization and only certain dwvelopers are willing to put in the time well and money to publiah for their propriatary and expensive frameworks in the first place.
Your theory does not hold water. And it is full of typos. You need a better mobile keyboard.
I just want a slightly higher res screen. Not by much just a bit more. Thats all
I'm holding off until a new version. Doesn't necessarily need to be faster, but I'm sure they've learned a ton with this release. Interested to see their 2.0 release.
Only thing I would ever want more is battery, but I've never even drained it and I carry my power brick with me everywhere for my phone/ laptop anyway so. I'd just get this version on the next discount (if I did not have a similar device).
