While I understand the sentiment, if they switch to SteamOS as a primary focus, what’s the problem with buying someone else’s handheld that’s built to run SteamOS? There are already handhelds more performant than the Steam Deck out there, once they have official SteamOS support what’s the difference? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve actually bought an absurd number of Steam Decks so far for myself and for friends/family, but once they die, if there’s no Steam Deck 2, I’ll probably just pick up a handheld that is built specifically to run SteamOS
I have a shitty Nintendo switch and no steam deck. Consider yourself lucky the availability is there lol. Steam Deck 2 just sounds like over saturation to me.
They specifically said they’d wait for technological justification for a new version. AMD/Intel simply might not have something at the moment that they can use that is significantly better with similar thermals.
I kind of wish they first released a Steam Deck 2 because they might shift their focus towards SteamOS now.
While I understand the sentiment, if they switch to SteamOS as a primary focus, what’s the problem with buying someone else’s handheld that’s built to run SteamOS? There are already handhelds more performant than the Steam Deck out there, once they have official SteamOS support what’s the difference? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve actually bought an absurd number of Steam Decks so far for myself and for friends/family, but once they die, if there’s no Steam Deck 2, I’ll probably just pick up a handheld that is built specifically to run SteamOS
Valve has the most power to set a fair price for these handhelds.
I have a shitty Nintendo switch and no steam deck. Consider yourself lucky the availability is there lol. Steam Deck 2 just sounds like over saturation to me.
probably best they wait for the next major tech breakthrough at least since we know they’ll never manage a third
I’m just thinking of my past experience where they also left stuff like the Link and SteamOS 1.
Steam Deck is way more successful.
actually wasn’t deck steam os versioned as 3? maybe they broke the cycle
Yeah.
1 was Debian based. 2 was not released. 3. is now Arch based.
They specifically said they’d wait for technological justification for a new version. AMD/Intel simply might not have something at the moment that they can use that is significantly better with similar thermals.