Valve’s Steam Deck has successfully started the handheld trend again. Facing more and more competitors, the development team is not in a hurry to launch the next generation of products. What they want to do is to provide a stable and reliable game for the entire gaming industry. Development Platform.
In 2022, Valvle founder Gabe Newell said that Steam Deck will have multiple generations of product updates in the future. In addition, the product uses a customized AMD RDNA 2 architecture chip, and its performance has begun to lag behind many modern products. Competitors, such as ROG Ally using AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme, have many people looking forward to the launch of a new generation of Steam Deck.
However, Steam Deck development engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais took the opportunity of Tokyo Game Show 2023 to respond to inquiries from foreign media and confirmed that the second-generation model will not be the primary target for the time being.
Pierre-Loup Griffais said that one of the great values of the Steam Deck is to provide game developers with a device with long-term stable performance, thereby ensuring that players can play the games logged on to the platform smoothly. Therefore, changing the performance of the host requires very careful evaluation. Adjustments will only be made when the performance has significantly increased. The team will always pay attention to the trends and changes in the hardware architecture.
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Valve hopes that more players can experience the Steam Deck platform first, so that they can gradually improve the UI interface, attract more developers, improve supply chain and other issues, because instead of upgrading the host performance, creating a more stable user experience is more important. Steam Deck’s top goal for the next few years.
