Comment on [Discussion] What are you're thoughts on a Steamdeck with a PSP Go form factor?
Darorad@lemmy.world 8 months agoThe switch is quite a bit thinner, but it’s running decade old arm silicon, so less heat to get rid of.
And you’d lose that slimness if you had to put the controls on another layer behind all the components.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 months ago
That’s my point. The Switch still is relatively big compared to a PSP or DS despite being relatively low powered (compared to the Deck). For now you have to sacrifice a lot of computing power to hit the form factor of a PSP.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I don’t even think you can call it “relatively low powered”. It’s VERY low-powered. The Switch is about 6 years old now and the chip was about 3 years old when it first released.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s obviously been wildly successful and it still pumps out very playable games.
I expect the new platform to have a similar passively cooled low power (but much higher than current) chip.