Valve don't exactly like to give out sales numbers, so we often have to make educated guesses but sometimes with huge hits like Black Myth: Wukong, it gives us a slightly clearer idea on how the Steam Deck is actually selling.

A particularly fun bit:

So then, how about Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said when it hits “tens of millions of users” that it “would actually make sense to support it”. We must be pretty close by now right? Why ignore a platform that’s sold multiple millions, and is clearly just continuing to fly off the shelves?

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The article says “no need for steam deck 2”. Valve is on record saying they wouldn’t do an incremental upgrade, they want to wait until there’s a major advance in the available technology.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Or it being 5 years in the future with significantly more efficient SOC’s and batteries

        That being said, the Nintendo DS’s last US patents should expire in November. Maybe they could do a dual screen?

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        That would be absolutely wonderful. If they could somehow future-proof their board design even if you had to have tech skills to replace it, enthusiasts could do it on their own and people who don’t want to could take it to the local tech repair shop.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      3 months ago

      Even if they were working on it, they wouldn’t tell, otherwise a bunch of people would be waiting on the steam deck 2 instead of buying the current one.

      • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        They’re gonna make a Black Myth 2? We’ll shit, I can skip the first one.

        Alternatively…

        What if they might make a Steam Deck 3? Better skip the 2nd one as well.

        • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          The Deck is a beauty, but let’s face it, people would “run” to buy a deck 2. We had thousands selling their old handheald when the new oled model came out and it was barely a (very good) mid-gen upgrade.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          That’s a poor comparison, as Black Myth has just come out and games take a long time to develop. And the Steam Deck 2 literally doesn’t exist yet.

          If Nintendo announced a Switch 2 tomorrow, saying it’s compatible with existing Switch games, do you think sales of the Switch would go up, or down?

        • TechieDamien@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          We all know there isn’t going to be a steam deck 3. Best we can offer is a steam deck 2 episode 2.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Valve can be lethargic but they generally know when not to fuck with something that works.

      That on its own is quite grand.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Wasn’t the steam deck OLED the incremental upgrade? I thought they did a sight spec bump along with the screen upgrade.

      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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        3 months ago

        Specs are the same, the APU is just now 6nm instead of 7nm which is more efficient and lets it run a few degrees cooler and therefore boost a bit higher without overheating, and the RAM bandwidth went from 88Gb/s to 102Gb/s.

        Consensus seems to be somewhere between 5-10% better fps, which means a game that ran at 50 fps might go up to 55, or one that ran at 28 might finally hit 30.

    • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If a vendor strangely insist on not working on a new product, it’s lying.

      In this case it’s obvious, considering we already got 2 minor revisions of steamdeck HW.