Well yeah, otherwise it will end up like Atari. No sales for the first one because everyone is waiting for the next one.
Comment on Steam Deck OLED announced
simple@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Hahaha, they kept trying to convince people again and again that there will NOT be a hardware refresh any time soon. That was only a few months ago.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ewe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s smart. Also, developers have a solid benchmark to set their games to. Console has long had the benefit of a stable hardware set over the course of many years, which makes it easier to develop to the broadest possible market. Skipping incremental APU updates has a benefit of keeping a longer benchmark for game developers hoping to boost sales by targeting the market with handhelds.
Pure_Decimation@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I received my deck yesterday 😭
David_Eight@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Return it 🤷🏻. I’m sure they have some 30 day return window.
Pure_Decimation@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They offered me a return/repurchase at current price, so I took that. Gives me some cash back to spend on games 🤷♂️
jukibom@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oof. I had mine about 6 weeks but that stings lol
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah I was burned and I’m kinda salty about it.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
That’s not what happened at all. They said they would not be releasing a higher performance version anytime soon. This is just a refresh. Like a Steam Deck 1.8
MHLoppy@fedia.io 7 months ago
They were careful with how they phrased it, leaving the possibility of a refresh without a performance uplift still on the table (as speculated by media). It looks like the OLED model's core performance will be only marginally better due to faster RAM, but that the APU itself is the same thing with a process node shrink (which improves efficiency a little).
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
The effiency part becomes a larger feature if it’s a mobile device…
MHLoppy@fedia.io 7 months ago
Sure, but not much of that battery improvement is coming from migrating the APU's process node. Moving from TSMC's 7nm process to their 6nm process is only an incremental improvement; a "half-node" shrink rather than a full-node shrink like going from their 7nm to their 5nm.
The biggest battery improvement is probably from having a 25% larger battery (40Whr -> 50Whr), with the APU and screen changes providing individually-smaller battery life improvements than that. Hence the APU change improving efficiency "a little".