It’s mobile. You can’t just shove power at it to get the results you want. The alternatives have marginally higher power (mostly at higher power draw), but the performance difference is nowhere near enough to justify calling it a 2. There are not x86 chips capable of doing meaningfully better within the power envelope the Deck has to have to function.
Yeah, the more powerful handhelds do it by dumping 75% more power into the APU for like a 30% power increase.
It works for handling some more demanding games, but when you’re draining the battery that quickly it doesn’t feel like a portable game system anymore.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
No humor/memes etc…
No affiliate links
No advertising.
No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
No self promotion.
No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
No politics.
Comments.
No personal attacks.
Obey instance rules.
No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc…)
Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
More like it’s too expensive or can’t be manufactured at scale, but sure I guess it’s kind of the same thing.
No shit? You want to pay 800€ for a videogame console?
At current currency conversion rates, that’d be $854.
I’m sure the Neo Geo was up there, at least in inflation-adjusted terms.
googles
https://www.ign.com/articles/comparing-the-price-of-every-game-console-with-inflation
Yeah, and apparently the 3DO actually slightly edged it out. $1,238.52 for the Neo Geo in 2020 dollars, and $1,246.96 for the 3DO.
It looks like the Intellivision made it there, too, at $916.46.
Now, granted, none of those dominated the market (though I remember a lot of kids who wished that they had a Neo Geo).
You’re not wrong, the Steam Deck was sold at a loss and there was that CPU shortage going on. I’m not sure if it’s still an issue.
“Doesn’t exist” is more accurate than that is.
It’s mobile. You can’t just shove power at it to get the results you want. The alternatives have marginally higher power (mostly at higher power draw), but the performance difference is nowhere near enough to justify calling it a 2. There are not x86 chips capable of doing meaningfully better within the power envelope the Deck has to have to function.
Yeah, the more powerful handhelds do it by dumping 75% more power into the APU for like a 30% power increase.
It works for handling some more demanding games, but when you’re draining the battery that quickly it doesn’t feel like a portable game system anymore.