Valve gave us the strongest wording yet that a Steam Deck 2 is actually real, although it's still clearly going to be some time away before there's enough of an upgrade.

The exact quote:

It is important to us, and we’ve tried to be really clear, we are not doing the yearly cadence. We’re not going to do a bump every year. There’s no reason to do that. And, honestly, from our perspective, that’s kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that’s only incrementally better. So we really do want to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before we ship the real second generation of Steam Deck. But it is something that we’re excited about and we’re working on.

  • KeefChief13@lemmy.world
    321·
    1 month ago

    It’s kind of just becoming an indie or old game portable pc to me. Don’t personally have much interest in playing modern graphically demanding titles on it.

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
      71·
      1 month ago

      I’m the same. I play retro and indie titles on the Deck, and more modern and demanding games on the desktop.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
      5·
      1 month ago

      I was really surprised how well Hellblade 2 ran on mine. And supposedly Until Dawn also runs well now. When you can live with 30fps I suspect that well crafted games will be playable for a few more years.

    • deafboy@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      It’s an excellent thin client as well. I’ve played the second half of death stranding through the free tier of Geforce Now.

    • Hagdos@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      Was it ever intended or fit for that? It’s 2.5 years old, where modern games 2.5 years ago that much less demanding than modern games today?

      • KeefChief13@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 month ago

        I think the goal was to be able to physically run some version of modern AAA titles when it came out. Although generally, those titles would be downgraded graphically and run at a low frame rate, making it a less than ideal situation for those with alternative options.

      • Prinz Kasper@feddit.org
        3·
        1 month ago

        2.5 years ago there were a lot more games still targeting last gen consoles as their minimum baseline. Newer games that are current gen consoles only tend to fare a lot worse on steam deck.