Monday, October 21st 2024
Valve Won't Follow Yearly Release Cadence with Steam Deck, Holds Until "Generational Leap in Compute"
In an interview with Reviews.org, Valve's designers Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat discussed the Steam Deck. They talked about the console's future and confirmed that it will not have a yearly release schedule like most handheld console makers. Usually, makers of handheld PCs and gaming consoles like ASUS with its ROG Ally, GPD with its Pocket, Lenovo with Legion GO, and many others follow a yearly update structure of its products to put the latest and greatest chipsets into their products. However, Valve is taking a more conservative approach to updating its famous Steam Deck console.
"We're not going to do a bump every year," said Lawrence Yang, adding that "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." The infamous successor to the original Steam Deck, Steam Deck 2, is currently shrouded in mystery. We don't have much information about the hardware that will power it, nor is there a release date. However, as Valve notes, it will be a "generational leap in compute" bringing more gaming capability to the platform. With many competitors releasing handheld gaming consoles, we are expecting Valve to come out with a new console soon.
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Reviews.org
"We're not going to do a bump every year," said Lawrence Yang, adding that "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." The infamous successor to the original Steam Deck, Steam Deck 2, is currently shrouded in mystery. We don't have much information about the hardware that will power it, nor is there a release date. However, as Valve notes, it will be a "generational leap in compute" bringing more gaming capability to the platform. With many competitors releasing handheld gaming consoles, we are expecting Valve to come out with a new console soon.
14 Comments on Valve Won't Follow Yearly Release Cadence with Steam Deck, Holds Until "Generational Leap in Compute"
If you have the audacity to call the new generation "new", then at least make sure that it is (looking at you, AMD, Intel and Nvidia).
i dont mind if the next steam deck comes 4 years later... but i do wish it has more vram, ram
I personally don't like smartphone companies are doing. This overproduction produces way too much e-waste.
Personally, I only buy a new phone when the current one's battery has given up.
As for generational leap compute, my guess would be they're waiting for AMD to release SoCs with UDNA/RDNA5 at N3. Doubling or tripling performance at the same 10W TDP should be attainable at that point.
It’s as if it's like a PS5 vs a PS5 Pro.
GPUs with GDDR6 instead of GDDR5 have a 10% boost, but seeing as the memory is shared with the CPU it may be more.
How else can you squeeze more performance at 15w?