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Valve is committed to bringing Steam Deck OLED 'battery life improvements to the LCD models as well' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On one hand I kinda feel bad because I just recently bought a Steamdeck on Valve's word that there won't be new Steamdeck for a few years, but then again, it still works and it will work until the next iteration, maybe a Steamdeck. I would still kinda feel better if Valve didn't make that obviously misleading statement, given that they worked on a steamdeck that is lighting better in all aspects for a long time.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not what they said, though. That might be how it was characterized in whatever retelling you heard, but their comments have always been very specific that a new, more powerful successor wasn't coming any time soon. They never said anything implying they wouldn't update it at all.

This is the same performance target, just with a nicer finish.

[–] Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's wild reading comments like these, because I thought they made it painfully obvious. All the headlines from that interview clearly delineated that they were talking about a "faster Steam Deck" aka a Steam Deck 2 and not a hardware refresh. Like here's a Verge article from September

"changing the performance level is not something we are taking lightly... I don’t anticipate such a leap to be possible in the next couple of years"

All that said, Valve might totally still have a Steam Deck refresh in the works that doesn’t change the performance floor. There’s a rich history of console manufacturers releasing smaller, lighter, and more power efficient versions of the same hardware...