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New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought (www.pcguide.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Source is KeplerL2, who is generally considered a reliable source for insider hardware info, particularly on AMD GPU hardware and AMD SoC for consoles.

Previously I would have personally estimated Steam Deck 2 to release mid 2026-early 2027, but the recent info about an upcoming Steam Machine made me think that maybe I should push back that estimate.

Of course even if we assume this is reliable insider info, a lot can change in couple years, so things can definitely change.

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[–] tekeous@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

I love my Steam Deck OLED and would only really consider an upgrade for things that improve the experience or reliability. Being able to run low and medium-graphics games locally and stream everything else from my PC with Remote Play is awesome.

I’d only want things like:

Hall effect or TMR sticks and triggers
Better battery life(but honestly it’s already great)
1080p, but not at the cost of horsepower or battery
More CPU and GPU power is never a bad thing but I wouldn’t want it at the cost of battery
Cooler and quieter(it gets warm and loud on Forza 5, TABS, Helldivers 2, etc)
Thunderbolt with external GPU support on the dock
More storage is always a good thing and 2230 SSDs pretty much top out at 2TB
The Bluetooth is laggy but I dunno, Bluetooth just kinda always sucks

and bloody hell Valve put the god damn xone driver in your SteamOS so I can use my Xbox wireless receiver without installing the driver after every update

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago

It's actually refreshing that a tech company isn't putting out a barely upgraded yearly iteration just to cash in on fanboys/collectors.

[–] this@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't want a new steam deck. I want a new steam controller and for valve to announce steam machines 2.0

Then we can finally watch windows die a (probably fairly slow, but steady) death.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

New steam controller was leaked earlier this year, and leaks for the new steam machine came out a few days ago. So you'll get your wish pretty soon probably.

[–] tankfox@midwest.social 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

What's really cool is that in a lot of cases you can just load up the game on steam in linux and it just downloads and uses the same proton layers that the deck does. I run arch and in my testing so far it works, hampered by the fact that my test box is a very old a10 amd apu

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The steam deck does benefit from common hardware. Valve will distribute prerendered shaders for the Deck's GPU over steam game updates, so most of the time deck users don't have to deal with shader stutter or wait for the game the render them itself during first startup.

Steam may share shaders between linux users with the same GPU, but I'm not sure. A new steam machine will definitely benefit from this though.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Steam may share shaders between linux users with the same GPU, but I'm not sure.

It does.

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[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 52 points 6 days ago (2 children)

As the kids like to say ..... Let em cook.

It'll come out when it's meaningful and a big leap. They've said as much before.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yup, they’ve straight up said that they’re not interested in iterative upgrades. They said they’d only consider a Deck 2 when the hardware was actually in a place that it would be a meaningful upgrade.

In the meantime, they’re focused on getting devs to actually optimize their games for the SD’s (admittedly aging) hardware. Basically, forcing devs to actually plan for Steam Deck support, instead of just shipping an unoptimized piece of junk out the door and blaming hardware limitations when nothing except the newest cards can play it. There are plenty of games that look gorgeous on the Deck, so we know it’s 100% possible to do so.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 11 points 6 days ago

The main thing I want, besides higher performance, is higher resolution to increase readability. Do something like what Apple did when they introduced their ultra high resolution monitors - present it as a standard resolution monitor to software, but then let the OS handle stuff like font rendering at full resolution and overlay it.

That way you don't cause a performance hit from games rendering more pixels than what's necessary for a small screen in 3D scenes, but the detail you do need is there to see. They should work with game engine developers and get the OS side support of it upstreamed to the Linux graphics stack (presumably the game mode window manager Gamescope would be the first place to build it into). It would work in parallel to the upscaling algorithm for the rest of the frame buffer.

Stuff like puzzle games and platformers, etc, could even have game engine support for tagging certain assets and object edges and symbols for higher resolution rendering, not just for fonts, so it's easier to see the important things. You could even do stuff like render faces specifically at higher resolution and do the rest at low res with upscaling.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

Fucking seriously. They pushed out a handheld that can play AAA games on low settings. It came out ~3 years ago, so they're on track as any other major hardware developer.

[–] ssroxnak@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Didn't Valve say it was gonna be quite a while until they release a Steam Deck 2?

[–] skibidi@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

They said they would wait until there was a meaningful increase in the power or efficiency they could get out of the form-factor.

The OG deck launched 3.5 years ago, and since then not much has changed. The steam deck GPU has 1.6 TFlop of FP32 compute at 15W. AMD's newest low-power APUs have 2.3 TFlop of FP32 at 28W - nearly double the power for a <50% theoretical performance gain.

A semi-custom APU (that removes the useless AI engine) would compare more favorably, but we are still talking about maybe 20% more performance, not exactly game changing for the cost.

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

That's what I thought too. Add the fact that Valve time != normal time.

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[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Honestly, for me I don't really need a new steam deck. The OLED deck is almost perfect already. I don't know that a ton more processing power is necessary for me. Whenever I've wanted to play a more demanding game on my deck I stream it from either my desktop gaming rig, my ps5, or from Geforce Now. (Though i know obviously not everyone is going to have those luxuries) The only thing I think I would REALLY want would be a WiFi chip that doesn't shit the bed if it doesn't like the router your using.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah right. If a new steam deck comes out in two or three years, I'll probably be about ready to upgrade. Right now my existing deck is great and does all I need it to. Best bit of tech I've bought in many years.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I have an aging gaming computer (6700k, 2080ti) and as i get older the need for a massive desktop is financial shitty now and starting to feel unnecessary for me. Desktop mode in a dock feels great and most of my hardware/all of my storage is out in the garage in a rack. It's a thin client I can game on.

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[–] Muscle_Meteor@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh.. I kinda hope so.. I just ordered a steam deck yesterday.

I meant to check this specifically before i ordered and i completely forgot

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

I got the OLED when it came out and it was the best purchase I made when it came to ‘consoles’

I don’t think I have turned my PS5 on more than a half dozen times since I got my Deck and that was just to play games like Beatsaber with the family.

The deck just offers way too much flexibility for games not to mention you can take it anywhere.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago

You're gonna love it

[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As easy to forget as it is, that'll be the 8th year of the PS5

Holy shit, what??

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[–] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Maybe if they could make the steam deck 1 actually available in aus/nz first so we can actually purchase them instead of everyone just having nintendo switches idk just a thought

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

We? You, maybe. I just got the thing a year ago.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

I don’t know who those “we” people are but benchmarks have repeatedly shown that in low wattage situations the performance difference between Deck and the newer handhelds is negligible, so this prediction is hardly a surprise IMO.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Ugh I just want to see the next gen if their VR.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I already have a beefy gaming PC and would much rather get an updated steam deck, that sucks

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

It will release with half life 3 😂

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