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Im honestly surprised they went with the stupid OLED name instead of just calling it the SD2/23. Its basically a completely new device that just has the same outer shell as the old one.
It's a refresh not a new generation. It is not the steam deck 2 they are waiting for a powerful/efficient enough APU.. Nothing hits the mark yet. Look at the Ally battery life.. Woeful.
It's almost the exact same performance profile - calling it a Deck 2 would be borderline consumer fraud. But more importantly, Valve want to be very consistent in their communication with developers: just like a console, all Steam Decks are designed to be almost interchangeable from a developer perspective, with only slight differences at most. When Valve release a device that developers need to target differently from the current Deck, that will be the Deck 2.
There is a bigger gap in performance between the deck & deck oled than intel's 12-14th gen processors, yet no one is calling the 14th gen the 12th gen++.
There is absolutely no fraud and claiming it is is batshit crazy to me. There is no arbitrary definition of how much improvement is enough to "justify" calling it a new generation. The standard for most companies is to release a new product every year and call it the old +1, regardless of how much difference there is.
Do we know what brand 1TB SSD they're using yet? Can't find confirmation anywhere even though lots of outlets have done a teardown on it..
Valve really went above and beyond with this refresh and fixed probably every single point of concern I had with the debut device while simultaneously improving virtually everything else. Between that, their incredible software work, the price, and availability of replacement parts, they've really cemented themselves as the only handheld device I'd ever consider purchasing. Nobody else comes close. I wasn't too interested when the Deck first came out and I'm still not with the current performance target, but I could easily see myself getting a Steam Deck 2.