You know Deck is an amazing console when you're a pretty heavy user of it, and your reaction to this list's requests is "Eh, price equals specs" or "I can see it, but I don't mind the way the current Deck works"
This won’t happen before 2025, according to Valve. What you missed was a new cooling system. They could replace the fan with a system like AirJet. Linus tech tips did a video about that.
Got to give Valve credit getting all the part needed for the steam deck out and working after all the supply chain mess going on at that time. Right now they should be not be selling the 64gb model anymore as SSD 2230 got even cheaper and still can keep it at 399 cost.
Alright this video is a bit of unrealistic expectations. I can only guess it's just a wishlist but the price to performance ratio just isn't there. 5) As shown by most performance metrics of the ROG Ally, everyone seems to be bumping the resolutions down to 720p to get better performance and battery to beat the Steamdeck performance. You go to max 1080p on the ROG Ally and it's similar in performance to the Steamdeck. This is at the 15w measurements of course for both, bumping the ROG Ally to the 25w/30w may yield slightly better fps but again more so at the 720p Res. I feel the screens bigger draw is the higher gamut color range which the Steamdeck lacks and has to be compensated with a pluggin somewhat. Valve knows this is what owners want, so realistically they should stick to the 720p/800p for the best performance in games but go to an OLED like Valve said they are thinking of going to in the near future. So no, I do not agree on the 1080p/1440p screen suggestion in this video as it's been shown time and time again that no one games at that in handheld mode, Not even the ROG Ally or other better spec handhelds, it's bumped down to 720p for various understandable reasons. 4) I'm fine with upgraded joysticks if they don't increase the cost too much. I have A Vita and some other handhelds and stick drift hasn't been an issue. I understand controllers since they can be abused heavily. In any case, I'm for the suggestion of upgraded joysticks. 3) There are case shell replacements now coming to market, so you can can change the case to various colors now (check Taki Steamdeck recent video). I think this should stay 3rd party imo, as Nintendo doesn't do this either for their main switch outside of special editions and their smaller lite series which are cheaper to manufacturer. I'm neutral on the color suggestion, fell their efforts could be spent elsewhere like maybe a bigger battery or shrinking the size of the unit somehow (getting rid of the bezels). 2) Asking for top tier specs sounds very unreasonable, you have to think about price and battery power at the same time as a manufacturer of these gaming devices. They are almost like cars that lose value and are outdated almost immediately once they are out the door. Look at PS5/Series X, already going to low resolutions and 30fps again despite being the most powerful consoles on the market. Both manufactures looked at what decent mid-range specs would work for the price range to make and sell well with the least amount of loss. Same goes for Valve, if you looked at what they were going for in making the device, their market research showed majority are playing on mid-range to low spec devices to game, a small amount of PC Gamers are gaming on high spec devices. Price vs performance is a good thing to look at, what gives enough of a spec bump but keeps good battery life at this time to make the upgrade? There isn't anything right now. Keep on mine that Steamdeck can drop to 3w and depending on the game can run almost 7 - 8 hours, the ROG Ally buckles as you enter the 9w range and doesn't compete with the Steamdeck whatsoever. Just because you have better specs and higher numbers, doesn't result in a better experience always, there's other factors in play. 1) I'm in Desktop mode only to move stuff around, install applications, and do downloads but gaming should be in Gaming Mode as it gives the most resources to ya. So I understand what your saying with performance taking a slight hit on Desktop mode but it shouldn't be where you are gaming imo. Maybe non-steam games is why this is even coming up for Desktop mode? If so, add the game or launcher into your Steam library and game in Gaming Mode. Indifferent on this request. Imo, we are a few years off of Valve popping a new Steamdeck 2 into the market. Valve said it themselves in recent interviews that if anything, a refresh may happen with a bigger battery and better screen (OLED), specs and anything else isn't going to happen for a while. Software has been getting better if many haven't noticed with the Steamdeck, we just got Ray-Tracing for Doom Eternal and next Mesa drivers unlock RT for all compatible games. We also have 3.5 firmware soon that helps with a bug for SMT which should bump performance in various apps/games and cut down on the shader compiles and stutters. I believe Valve looks to keep the Steamdeck relevant with more software updates, performance tweaks, and Proton improvements in the next couple months and years to come. Don't expect a Steamdeck 2 for a while y'all.
@@Garrett0329 "Valve designer Lawrence Yang recently said “a true next-gen Deck with a significant bump in horsepower wouldn’t be for a few years." it's why just so far we just doing guest work.
You know Deck is an amazing console when you're a pretty heavy user of it, and your reaction to this list's requests is "Eh, price equals specs" or "I can see it, but I don't mind the way the current Deck works"
This won’t happen before 2025, according to Valve.
What you missed was a new cooling system. They could replace the fan with a system like AirJet. Linus tech tips did a video about that.
Hehehe.
eGPU support is needed
hot swappable ssd port
Got to give Valve credit getting all the part needed for the steam deck out and working after all the supply chain mess going on at that time. Right now they should be not be selling the 64gb model anymore as SSD 2230 got even cheaper and still can keep it at 399 cost.
1080p 120fps
P r o m o S M 👀
Alright this video is a bit of unrealistic expectations. I can only guess it's just a wishlist but the price to performance ratio just isn't there.
5) As shown by most performance metrics of the ROG Ally, everyone seems to be bumping the resolutions down to 720p to get better performance and battery to beat the Steamdeck performance. You go to max 1080p on the ROG Ally and it's similar in performance to the Steamdeck. This is at the 15w measurements of course for both, bumping the ROG Ally to the 25w/30w may yield slightly better fps but again more so at the 720p Res. I feel the screens bigger draw is the higher gamut color range which the Steamdeck lacks and has to be compensated with a pluggin somewhat. Valve knows this is what owners want, so realistically they should stick to the 720p/800p for the best performance in games but go to an OLED like Valve said they are thinking of going to in the near future. So no, I do not agree on the 1080p/1440p screen suggestion in this video as it's been shown time and time again that no one games at that in handheld mode, Not even the ROG Ally or other better spec handhelds, it's bumped down to 720p for various understandable reasons.
4) I'm fine with upgraded joysticks if they don't increase the cost too much. I have A Vita and some other handhelds and stick drift hasn't been an issue. I understand controllers since they can be abused heavily. In any case, I'm for the suggestion of upgraded joysticks.
3) There are case shell replacements now coming to market, so you can can change the case to various colors now (check Taki Steamdeck recent video). I think this should stay 3rd party imo, as Nintendo doesn't do this either for their main switch outside of special editions and their smaller lite series which are cheaper to manufacturer. I'm neutral on the color suggestion, fell their efforts could be spent elsewhere like maybe a bigger battery or shrinking the size of the unit somehow (getting rid of the bezels).
2) Asking for top tier specs sounds very unreasonable, you have to think about price and battery power at the same time as a manufacturer of these gaming devices. They are almost like cars that lose value and are outdated almost immediately once they are out the door. Look at PS5/Series X, already going to low resolutions and 30fps again despite being the most powerful consoles on the market. Both manufactures looked at what decent mid-range specs would work for the price range to make and sell well with the least amount of loss. Same goes for Valve, if you looked at what they were going for in making the device, their market research showed majority are playing on mid-range to low spec devices to game, a small amount of PC Gamers are gaming on high spec devices. Price vs performance is a good thing to look at, what gives enough of a spec bump but keeps good battery life at this time to make the upgrade? There isn't anything right now. Keep on mine that Steamdeck can drop to 3w and depending on the game can run almost 7 - 8 hours, the ROG Ally buckles as you enter the 9w range and doesn't compete with the Steamdeck whatsoever. Just because you have better specs and higher numbers, doesn't result in a better experience always, there's other factors in play.
1) I'm in Desktop mode only to move stuff around, install applications, and do downloads but gaming should be in Gaming Mode as it gives the most resources to ya. So I understand what your saying with performance taking a slight hit on Desktop mode but it shouldn't be where you are gaming imo. Maybe non-steam games is why this is even coming up for Desktop mode? If so, add the game or launcher into your Steam library and game in Gaming Mode. Indifferent on this request.
Imo, we are a few years off of Valve popping a new Steamdeck 2 into the market. Valve said it themselves in recent interviews that if anything, a refresh may happen with a bigger battery and better screen (OLED), specs and anything else isn't going to happen for a while. Software has been getting better if many haven't noticed with the Steamdeck, we just got Ray-Tracing for Doom Eternal and next Mesa drivers unlock RT for all compatible games. We also have 3.5 firmware soon that helps with a bug for SMT which should bump performance in various apps/games and cut down on the shader compiles and stutters. I believe Valve looks to keep the Steamdeck relevant with more software updates, performance tweaks, and Proton improvements in the next couple months and years to come. Don't expect a Steamdeck 2 for a while y'all.
The Ally not being comfortable is not an opinion.
Steam Deck 2?
Your tripping
My guess is late Summer 2024
@@ProfessorTek ya? What evidence do you have?
@@Garrett0329 "Valve designer Lawrence Yang recently said “a true next-gen Deck with a significant bump in horsepower wouldn’t be for a few years." it's why just so far we just doing guest work.
@@ProfessorTek I can confirm something is coming but it's not a performance upgrade sadly.
@@aviatedviewssound4798That wouldn't make sense for them to do a big perf upgrade. I'm betting on screen and battery upgrade