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Valve says "technology doesn't exist" yet for full Steam Deck 2.0 (www.eurogamer.net)

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[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Won't ever happen, Apple is a hardware and device company that also makes software to go with it; Valve is a software company that also makes hardware to go with it.

And to go arm would mean throwing out the majority of their current store. Plus arm gaming performance is trash, apples chips struggle to run games 10 years old at 1080p 60fps.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Apple made its own chips with the Woz and then became a software company with that dude who got cancer. Only with the M1 did they design their own hardware again. Or am I getting this wrong?

What's to stop Valve from owning the vertical?

And to go arm would mean throwing out the majority of their current store.

That really depends on the game studio support or how good the translation is. Wine games sometimes have better performance than when running on Windows (how they do that magic is beyond me), but adding another layer to translate from x86 to ARM isn't insane. Even Apple wants to do it and they hate compatibility.

Plus arm gaming performance is trash, apples chips struggle to run games 10 years old at 1080p 60fps.

Apple is trash - that we can agree on, but does the chipset really hinder an APU from getting a better GPU? Nvidia is going to enter the ARM space and if they have an inbuilt GPU to make it an APU, then it might blow the Apple chips out of the water in terms of gaming.

Anyway, all I'm saying is I'd welcome "Made for Linux" hardware.