To be honest, for graphically intensive games, there isn’t that much battery life left to sacrifice :)
What are they going to do? Reduce my 2 hours of Kingdom Come Deliverance to 1 hour?
But still, I respect the hell out of their decision to only update the hardware if the performance is significantly improved.
The battery life is already not great when running anything intensive. Can’t imagine being able to make anymore sacrifices there without making the thing useless.
We’re not going to do a bump every year. There’s no reason to do that. And, honestly, from our perspective, that’s kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that’s only incrementally better. So we really do want to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before we ship the real second generation of Steam Deck. But it is something that we’re excited about and we’re working on.
It’s refreshing to see someone that understands their customers. I often experience buyer’s remorse with even products I like and have thoroughly researched and use often. Never once have I felt like I wasted money on the SD, and it just feels like it constantly gets better.
Good to know Valve realize most people just want to use the device they have without upgrading every year just to create E-waste.
Agreed. Even though the SD OLED addresses all the customer feedback from the LCD version, both devices are still on equal footing when it comes to SteamOS. They didn’t abandon the previous generation, they improved on it by making it a more capable device. When someone asks me which one to buy, I always tell them to decide based on the money they’re willing to spend on it. Yes, the OLED is better in terms of specs, but that doesn’t make the LCD a bad console.
The OLED update also helped create a secondary market of used/refurbished units, it was a pretty good decision
