Hold on, this is going the exactly opposite way to what I thought… A little wait for AMD to come out with a fresh APU that's a decent step up, a better screen and battery and job done right? Valve doesn't need much to make the Steam Deck 2 a success, clearly. People will argue both ends from just wanting a better battery to play longer, to wanting more power to keep those troublesome AAAs at at least a solid 30FPS (or better). Really though, it very much depends on what type of games you're playing for what you'll settle for. Don't get me wrong, you can pry my Steam Deck from my cold dead hands but I do want more power in my hands too. Is it just enough to have perhaps a better battery and screen? The more I think on it, I don't believe it is.
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They need to make the upgrade worth it too. How soon is too soon though? Two years? Three years? By three is it too late? They need to ensure people feel like their purchase and personal investment into it was worth it, and not do any announcement too soon. We are after all, only one year since the original's release. Valve need to be careful on the timing of the announcement and the release. We already know Valve are looking to the future for more Steam Decks too, as they said it's a "multi-generational product line". And putting Linux in the hands of many who previously didn't care about Linux.
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However, it's clearly popular and overall it does the job quite nicely of making the PC as a platform more accessible to a wider audience. Valve don't exactly need much to make a Steam Deck 2 a success either.Īs a gaming device, the Steam Deck clearly isn't perfect. Join the discussion for this post on our forums.With the Steam Deck recently having a first anniversary, no doubt many are thinking on what's next - I certainly am. It’s about how you’re designing the whole system, and what’s in between the screen and the SOC (system-on-a-chip).” But there’s nothing about LCD vs OLED, different screen technologies that makes that a dealbreaker. So it’s something that you need to keep in mind when you’re evaluating and selecting possible options. It was really important to us that all that would be supported. When we were working on this screen, we made sure these could be supported, even if the refresh rate switching wasn’t ready at release. “It’s just something you have to plan ahead. But the idea that you could just swap in a new screen and be done-it would need more than that to be doable.” I don’t think we’re discounting anything. I think it would be a bigger amount of work than people are assuming it would be. Basically everything is architected around everything when you’re talking about a device that small. “But in reality, the screen’s at the core of the device. “I think people are looking at things like an incremental version and assume that it’s an easy drop-in,” Griffais says. The short, polite answer is that Valve “understands the limitations of the current tech that’s in the Deck, in terms of the screen.” Images shared by Steam Deck users have suggested that some units have very noticeable backlight bleeding, a problem that won’t be found on OLED, although the technology suffers from its own issues, including image burn-in. Nintendo released a new version of the Switch that features an OLED screen in 2021, but the Steam Deck, which launched in February 2022, features an IPS LCD.
Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of Steam Deck’s designers, was recently asked by a publication whether Valve was planning an OLED model of the Steam Deck, and while Griffais didn’t go so far as to rule it out, he did suggest that the chances were on the slimmer side, explaining that it’d probably require a substantial overhaul in terms of how the system is designed. One the most obvious and exciting improvements that Valve could make for the Steam Deck 2 is an OLED screen, but people shouldn’t be surprised if it ends up sticking with LCD.
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