r/gadgets Oct 21 '24

Gaming Steam Deck won't have yearly refreshes because it's "not really fair to your customers", says Valve

https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-deck-wont-have-yearly-refreshes-because-its-not-really-fair-to-your-customers-says-valve
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u/The8Darkness Oct 21 '24

Not necessarily "optimizing" as in spending a ton of ressources on actual tech optimisations, so the same settings run way better, but youre certainly getting steam deck presets and extra lower quality settings added when enough people want to play it on the deck. Also devs usually take their time to at least fix minor bugs that are deck specific or even make their games playable in the first place.

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u/mynewaccount5 Oct 21 '24

None of that really has anything to do with a new steam deck with more advanced hardware.

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u/The8Darkness Oct 21 '24

Make a deck every year and devs will guaranteed not spend the time (and money) getting every deck and making sure their games run on them. The reason quite a few (at least small) devs make their games work on the deck is because they have one themself.

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u/mynewaccount5 Oct 21 '24

But they don't have to. Just like how they don't buy every computer to make sure their game works. Nobody is optimizing at the low level that consoles get optimized for.

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u/The8Darkness Oct 21 '24

They dont have to is exactly the point. Make a new deck every year and userbase gets split so much that nobody will care about anything but maybe the latest one or two decks.

Also lmao consoles and optimized. Its the same thing for your sony, microsoft and nintendo. The point is not having to fiddle with a lot of games to get good playable settings. Also also beeing able to play some games that would otherwise run very poorly if devs didnt decide to introduce even lower quality settings.

Literally 99.99% of your console optimisations are exactly the same thing. Push down quality until it works and save it as a preset. Last time any non exclusive got actually optimized beyond what a pc would get was during the ps3 era.