And now it’s 50 bucks cheaper than it was on sale PLUS I could’ve just gotten a 512gb OLED instead for just a bit more??? Seems kind of messed up of Valve to discount a soon to be obsolete product without telling anyone the refresh is right around the corner. They really made it seem like the steam deck upgrade would be years away… Is it wrong to feel robbed?

  • JimmyRecard@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They said that the performance target will not change. It has not changed. Although the new Steam Deck has a slightly more efficient APU, the performance is virtually identical.

    Here’s the quote from Pierre-Loup Griffais:

    It’s important to us that the Deck offers a fixed performance target for developers, and that the message to customers is simple, where every Deck can play the same games. As such, changing the performance level is not something we are taking lightly, and we only want to do so when there is a significant enough increase to be had. We also don’t want more performance to come at a significant cost to power efficiency and battery life. I don’t anticipate such a leap to be possible in the next couple of years, but we’re still closely monitoring innovations in architectures and fabrication processes to see where things are going there.