is it worth buying now or should i wait for a new model?

>>714101190 (OP)
'ick on 'eck

>>714101190 (OP)
only if you're not interested in modern AAA slop

>>714101190 (OP)
Have you considered the Lenovo Legion Go S?

Buy a used oled or wait

Depends on your use case
I use it to play 7th Gen and below, as well as TV/movie watching. It serves me very well in everyday use.

>>714101190 (OP)
its meme tech for meme games

>>714101190 (OP)
At this point I'd wait for the new model. All signs point to Valve keeping a relatively constrained power target but using more efficient chips to reduce weight / bulk while keeping battery levels high. But there may also be a "pro" variant with a higher performance target.

Current deck is bulky and heavy and may not be to your liking.

>>714101190 (OP)
If you're worried Steam Deck 2 is gonna be released out of the blue the same way the Steam Deck was announced originally, then buy a used OLED, and if the SD2 gets released resell that, and wait for the inevitable waiting list.

>>714101190 (OP)
I've been consistently impressed with what it can run as long as you temper your expectations. Its not going to give you 4K 60fps on the newest AAA releases, but it can run a bit of games decently well especially if they're optimized. More than you'd expect at least if you're okay with hovering around 30-40fps and comfortable with messing with internal settings

>>714101190 (OP)
It's a quad-core CPU with a 8 CUs GPU (which was already outdated at the time of its release) in 2025. Its bad.

>>714101378
It is for travel mainly. I already own a PC

>>714101190 (OP)
You can either get the Steam Deck now or just wait for the Steam Deck 2.

Will Deck 2 have a decent battery life (5+ hours of gameplay)?

when is 2 coming oooout

>>714102459
Hopefully, the Deck 2 has a better battery life than the OG Steam Deck.

the steam deck is complete garbage, it's not worth spending $550 on a weak laptop that can't run any current gen games properly
it's no surprise it only sold 4 million units, which the switch 2 already outsold in 4 days

>>714103547
>Playing AAA on deck
It's a machine for less demanding games that are better suited for handheld gaming. Playing AAA games on it is just stupid

>>714103547
Comparing their sales is retarded, since you can't buy the deck anywhere but on steam (it will forever stay this way so they can maintain the price low)

It's perfectly fine, blame the woke devs for not optimising their games, because once the new model comes out they will optimise even less. Just like everything requires DLSS now. The PS3 from nearly 20 years ago could do 1080p without dlss.

>>714103802
i agree but because its an indie machine a best it should cost 300 max
also there is 0 reason for a deck 2

>>714101190 (OP)
Buy

>>714101190 (OP)
Oled is good enough. You don't need steamdeck 2

>>714104326
>shits on deck's performance
>"there is 0 reason for a deck 2"

lmao

There was never a reason to buy a Steam Deck after this baby launched.

>>714104578
it will never run aaa at anything acceptable and for indies its too expensive

>>714104634
will die in 2y whiteout a way to repair

>>714104775
Chinks gonna chinks but that doesn't change that Valve launched an handheld with laughable hardware in 2022 and got beaten by a chinese startup.

>>714105329
but it didn't its 3x the price and i would never play big games on low settings so its a meme

>>714101190 (OP)
New model is at least 1 and more likely 2+ years away.

>>714105489
its never coming amd wants any device with its new chip to cost 2k

>>714105329
>and got beaten by a chinese startup.
Now list the prices of these Chinese startup machines. What's that? $1200? $900 for the version that is worse than it? With significantly worse build quality, RMAs, and warranties?

>>714103547
>it's no surprise it only sold 4 million units, which the switch 2 already outsold in 4 days
Do you think the Switch 2 could run Dragon's Dogma 2 well? Serious question lol
Because it's running Cyberpunk at sub 720p 30fps
Neither of these handhelds should not play "next gen" games

>>714101190 (OP)
There is never going to be a Deck 2, just like there's still no Index 2.

>>714106012
Deck is the third-gen Steam Machine. Not too much of a stretch to think there will be a fourth-gen system at some point. Valve is probably waiting for RDNA 4.5 or UDNA, but with the advent of fast FSR 4 on RDNA 3 thanks to GNU/Linux and RadV it may arrive sooner rather than later.
The main barrier to a Deck 2 is a new AMD SOC with a low enough TDP.

Been thinking about getting something for playing PC games on my big ol TV and couch, used to have a steam link for it but I want something 4k now and not wholly reliant on my desktop not rendering cum physics in blender. Not gonna go traveling with it so I dunno if a Steam Deck is what I want.

get a real pc or a switch 2
deck is the worst of both worlds

>>714105680
kek every time.
Also these newer CPUs may be faster on paper, but they will throttle HARD in this small as shit chinkhelds after 30 seconds of actual use.

>>714107505
Get a Steam Deck and play all the Nintendo games ever release in perfect quality anywhere you want IMHO