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Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’ (www.theverge.com)
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[–] echo64 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Kinda wonder what kind of effect a more powerful nintendo device will have on the whole ecosystem. Nintendo devices are automatically probably going to run smoother watt for watt just because developers will likely prioritize optimisation for that device, so it's all a bit of an uphill battle for the steam deck there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nintendo never makes anyhow powerful devices, they juat rely wntirely on developer optimization and only certain dwvelopers are willing to put in the time well and money to publiah for their propriatary and expensive frameworks in the first place.

[–] echo64 -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • famicom: very competitive at the time, advanced in some areas
  • snes: very competitive, more powerful in many regards
  • n64: widely accepted as the most powerful of that generation
  • gamecube: more powerful than ps2
  • wii: this one is the least powerful you have that.
  • wiiu: widely accepted as more powerful than x360/ps3
  • switch: powerful hardware for a handheld of the time.
  • rumoured switch successor: rumored to basically be a portable ps4.

Your theory does not hold water. And it is full of typos. You need a better mobile keyboard.

[–] Chailles 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can't really comment on the earlier consoles, but those are some pretty biased comparisons.

The GameCube is more powerful than the PS2, but then the Xbox was more powerful than the GameCube. Then you have the Wii. But then WiiU being more powerful than a console coming out 6 years prior? What kind of argument is that?

The argument for the Switch doesn't prove anything when there's very little investment in the handheld console market when the Switch came out. And also, who cares if the Switch's successor can beat a decade old console? I swear, my phone probably can run a PS4 game based purely on its processing power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not only that but the processor it had was like a 2 year old design when switch was released

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