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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probability that the next steam deck is arm based?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A Steam Deck 2, unlikely. AMD and Intel x86 chips are competitive with ARM chips in that 10-15w range. Battery life is great in laptops. They’re competitive with Apple at the same power ranges. There’s going to be performance overhead translating x86 to ARM along with compatibility issues as FEX is maturing. Deck 2 should be targeting as much performance in the up to 15w range as possible. CPU instruction translator goes against that

  Deck 2 makes most sense to stick with AMD. AMD CPU+GPU. There’s no real cost savings getting AMD to integrate in an ARM chip. Qualcomm GPU’s have far worse drivers than AMD and unproven to be as hardware feature performance as AMD/Nvidia. Intel still sucks power with their Arc cards compared to AMD/Nvidia at the same performance range. Nvidia ARM+GPU I doubt provides any cost savings. PowerVR and Mali graphics have trash drivers and probably not feature competitive with AMD/Nvidia for PC expectations

  Steam Deck lite down the line sure where an ARM Deck that is stronger than the AMD deck and cheaper/lighter/fanless or maintains the low price of the old deck because inflation. But that should be down the line for FEX to mature and be certain that the ARM hardware is strong enough to make the translation overhead a moot point for something that’s supposed to match a gen 1 Deck

  Maybe Windows and Linux consumer ARM really takes off and we start seeing games ship ARM binaries. Then eventually it’ll make sense for the high end handheld to go ARM. FEX mature for the older games that never updated with an ARM binary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Emudeck person is working on this

  shop.playnix.io/products/playnix-console

  RX 9060xt and Ryzen 5600

  Don’t need it. At least it’s RDNA4. Good bump up in performance compared to the Steam Machine and still fairly compact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve barely used mine too. Pretty sure I bought it the first few months they were available and never got used to the left touchpad. Feels cool. Maybe if it was left stick and right touch pad, I would use it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have the original in perfect condition. This looks like a complete improvement to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m excited to see what it can do at idle power draw along with the price. This can end up being a really good miniPC if it’s priced as competitively as the Deck was when that launched

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far Cry series will push multiplayer "more predominantly" going forwards, according to Ubisoft boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ubisoft continues being the worst major publisher in the world for like 15 years now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STEAM FRAME - Valve Corporation Trademark Registration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exciting. I’m not interested in a PC but that’d be good if it had a 9060xt in it. Be a good boost to FSR4 adoption and it’d be a nice baseline for AAA games for the normal gamer that just wants plug and play. 1080-1440 native and 4k FSR would be good with that for the newest high end AAA games. If it’s a standalone VR headset, I would likely buy that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most culturally mute console generation in my lifetime that will probably be surpassed cultural midness by the PS6. Games take too long to make now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good choice. As easy to forget as it is, that’ll be the 8th year of the PS5. Probably will benefit from similar supply chains as the rumored PS6/PS5 handheld and whatever MS does. Main shame to me is for people buying a Steam Deck and being stuck with regular sdxc microSD. microSD express or that Biwin mini SSD would be real nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was sceptical on how good it could be when it was first announced. Steam Deck 2 will be day one for me though