valve He made it clear that he wanted to build one Steam Deck 2, and at the same time stressed that a faster portable console isn’t coming anytime soon. Now, Pierre-Loup Griffiths off valve The Verge and told CNBC that could be as late as 2025 or before the new standard is reached, as they want to see a jump in performance without a significant impact on battery life.
“We don’t expect such a jump to be possible in the next few years,” he told me via email.
Here is the full quote:
“That’s important to us the deck Offer a specific performance goal for developers and make the message clear to customers, where each the deck can play the same game. Therefore, we do not take it lightly to change the performance level, and only want to do so when there is a significant enough increase. We also don’t want to get more performance at a significant cost in energy efficiency and battery life. “We don’t anticipate the possibility of such a leap in the coming years, but we continue to closely monitor innovations in architecture and manufacturing processes to see where things are going.”
Despite this, valve There may be an update in progress Steam Deck That does not change the performance level. Console makers have a rich history of releasing smaller, lighter, more power-efficient versions of the same hardware and Nintendo Updated switch Twice: once to improve the battery and once to improve the screen.
Screens and batteries are key issues for both Griffiths and designer Lawrence Young Steam DeckThey also told me end of 2022.
A new display can unlock greater perceived performance, even if there’s no new chip to improve frame rates. he Come to ROG Alley He showed us during the game Starfield it is ally and a Ion also geek 1sEquipped with both chips AMD Very similar, the game felt more fluid come on Mainly because its variable refresh rate smooths out screen drops. valve You can also raise the ceiling instead of the floor, if a turbo mode is attached like these two portable devices.
may be valve Just get it AMD Minimize and optimize the same chip to consume less power. Or perhaps find a better screen? Maybe just a bigger battery? Or maybe just waiting, and mysterious Galileo/Sephiroth of valve Turns out to be the long-awaited independent viewer SteamVR.
There is a theory that maybe Galileo be one pc living room steam It could send graphics to a viewer, but Griffis dismissed that idea last week.
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Editor’s note: It is too early to think about its successor (as a consumer). Steam DeckThe new console will arrive when it arrives, if it arrives.