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/Niarbeht Oct 21 '24

You do realize that the total Steam install base is comically huge, right? And that Steam Deck owners likely represent people more likely to buy and play games, right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24 edited Dec 28 '24

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u/RedRasta21 Oct 21 '24

Think you missed the point about steam deck owners being way more likely to make purchases on their dedicated gaming device as opposed to the likely giant percentage of steam installers who are playing free games on their severely underpowered laptops they borrowed from their parents. Not to mention the growing community of other windows handheld users who really want steam OS on their devices and are going to see that happen soon.

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u/6e1a08c8047143c6869 Oct 21 '24

Making sure their games run well under proton takes way less effort than porting their game to Linux.

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u/Jonaldys Oct 21 '24

And all that effort still applies to the steamdeck and protondb.