Comment on Discussion: Do you think the next steamdeck will be x86 or ARM?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I would guess steam deck 2 will be x86, I’m assuming that valve is already working on hardware for it. We do know that Valve is working on a new VR headset that will be ARM based though, and that they’re working on an ARM compatibility layer for it. If the early testing of the VR headset is promising enough I could imagine valve pivoting to make the next Deck ARM based, but that will probably cause a longer delay before we get a Deck 2.
wasabi@feddit.org 5 days ago
What’s the source on the VR headset being ARM based? I must have missed that
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
There were previous leaks that were covered here about it, here are two articles on it:
gamingonlinux.com/…/valve-appear-to-be-testing-ar…
gamingonlinux.com/…/deckard-is-apparently-the-cod…
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
An assumption is not knowing a fact.
It would be stupid for Valve to not at least to explore possibilities but to say that we know that Valve is working on an ARM VR headset is not truthful.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I’d recommend looking at the articles I linked, I probably should have refreshed my memory on them better before commenting.
In addition to knowing that valve is working on compatibility layers for running x86 on arm devices, there was also a steamVR update 9 months ago contains files for an ARM device code named deckard. There’s probably more relevant leaks too, I think some renders of deckard controllers got leaked at some point as well.