Valve denied those claims that a refresh is coming
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chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 5 days agopcgamer.com/…/a-new-steam-deck-is-coming-with-one…
There were rumors yesterday about it after CES. It looks like Valve is denying it after AMD said there were new processors on the way for Steamdeck. I’m not 100% sold on the denial, I think it may have been some miscommunication on the timing of the news. Either way, that’s where I got it from, I just hadn’t seen the news today about them denying it yet.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
G0ldenSp00n@lemmy.jacaranda.club 5 days ago
Don’t think they are lying about the denial, they said they wanted the upgrade to be big and the z2 is marginally better than what the Steam Deck already has. I would guess a Steam Deck 2 is years away, but we might get a Steam Home Console, or maybe the Deckard VR headset. I kinda doubt any of those would run a z2 though. Why would Valve be using an off the shelf chip when they had a custom chip last time?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah, I don’t think it’s a full steamdeck 2, I think it would be more like the oled upgrade. Slightly better performance and battery life. I think valve is going to lean into the cellphone model of smaller upgrades every year, with an eventual phase out of old hardware after 5 years or so.