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Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC]
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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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Do we think it'll be ready when they can give it specs to match the steam machine so there's a single target for developers, or the more exciting option of building something arm-based using whatever fex wizardry is going on in the frame?
Why this obsession with ARM?
Do you even what to be able to game on the thing? AMD cpus have come a long way with battery life. And Linux amd64 support is at this point at 20years, arm is at 5y if you’re lucky, usually 2-0y.
If Apple licensed their optimised variant of ARM to third parties, Steam would probably jump right on it, along with other hardware manufacturers. The performance Apple Silicon got over the x86 machines it replaced was game-changing, along with the improved battery life. And other ARM vendors, whilst behind Apple (who do have excellent CPU engineers), are catching up.
Keep dreaming, and even if Apple magically licensed out I’m not sure it would be worthwhile.
Intel & AMD have been incredible at maintaining, supporting mainline Linux and keeping old hardware supported.
Apple on the other hand ends support at 7years maximum, no Linux support.
Qualcomm ends support at 5y with support being the bear minimum for Linux.