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Steam deck needed this. The new handhelds were pulling in every where except for the touchpads. Wish that they had upgraded the processing power as well tho. DF has shown many new games are too “big” for the deck. Battery life js important but it would have been nice to have the option of more power when plugged in. At least this should put some major pressure on Lenovo and Asus to cut prices.
They really didn't. The fact that Linus had to move goalposts to make the Ally look better than the Deck in terms of price to performance ratio is telling how busted the Deck was compared to its peers.
Yet they still did. Dave2D brought up a good comparison when he mentioned the PS5 refresh and the difference between both is night and day. What makes this comparison special is the fact that Sony and Valve are in a similar position wherein they can afford to sell their hardware at a loss since they subsidize those losses through their own stores, yet the Deck OLED has all these upgrades while the PS5 refresh barely has any to justify its price boost.
Better yet, Valve still kept the prices close to the OG Deck while cutting the prices of the OG Steam Decks at the same time.
really hurts us who jsut got the OG Deck lol
A performance boost isn’t that necessary, that would push it into Steam Deck 1.5 or something. Gotta admit that the Steam Deck is at the perfect “sweet spot” of performance/optimization/power usage.