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Valve has been very up front about the fact that they aren't going to be constantly upgrading and iterating every year, and they've made their reasons for that pretty clear. Feels like a bit of a strange take to be disappointed in them for being true to their word. Besides it's not like they advertised the white version as anything other than a cosmetic change.
You're not wrong, but I can't help but want something more after the Steam Deck being in the market for so long. Even something as small as a RAM increase improves a good amount.
@@baldlyrudy Have it really been in the market for long tho if we are being honest? Its younger then the current consol generations and do we need and want it to be like a generic phone lineup? A new and more expensive one every new year? Nah Im glad they are treating the Steam Deck more like old gaming gear when it comming to a longer life cycle. Wating to get my first steam Deck this week and Im pretty sure It will atleast be until 2026 before we se a new Steam Deck 2.
@roundlake96 nah. Not every year. That's for sure. But that's definitely what CPU and GPU manufacturers do. What I'd want is maybe something every other year. Or even on the third year?
@@baldlyrudy But the Steam Deck is not just a part, its a full system. No normal person swap their gpu or cpu every year. You wait until you get a good enough leep in performance and so far AMD has not done that when It comes to a Steam Deck 2. And splitting the system as you want makes it harder for devs to work with it and thus lowers the quality worse for its users. In generell we take progress for granted. Was not long ago it took a decade between consol generations. And money wise is it not better to get as much value as possible for your steam deck instead of feeling the need to swap to the next best thing?
Agree, it’b be strange for Steam to touch on spec at this moment honestly, they just did it recently with the Oled. It’s a new color and it looks amazing, wouldn’t have expected anything else, unless they have marketed it
I am too. I just hope Zotac rethinks the specs on it. It was impressive at Computex, and it felt great in my hands. The good thing was they were very receptive of any criticism that myself and the rest of the people that I went with gave them. I hope they take it to heart.
For me, yeah. But that's because I have other Steam Decks that are all black. If this is the only one you have, it probably won't bother you at all. The handheld still looks clean and I like the aesthetics.
@@baldlyrudy Yeah I got mine but stopped using it since i realized that in racing games the stick auto goes left for some reason. Gyro was disabled and still the same issue. Got both the ally x and the white steam deck.
Valve has already said dozens of times that they are not upgrading the tech of the steam deck until technology has improved enough to justify a total hardware upgrade. They were always upfront about this whether it would be on blogs TH-cam channels, or their very own website
Steamdeck is going good dor their not upgrading mid gen vs very often. Game industry need to slow down about graphical fidelity. Just look at swich. They gone full gameplay over graphics, and its paying off.
I mean, the original Steam Deck came out in February of 2022. It's been almost three years. How long should we wait to see something as small as 24GB vs 16GB RAM?
I think you're missing the point here. Valve has been very upfront about not upgrading the Steam Deck until there is a massive bump in performance without sacrificing battery life. They also said they don't think it's fair to the consumer to release new hardware every 1-2 years. I do understand that the Steam Deck is underpowered compared to other PC handhelds, and of course I would love to see a Steam Deck 2 at some point - but this was not that. This was also not a refresh, the Steam Deck OLED was the refresh. This is just a limited quantity color option, nothing more. Were you dissapointed in Microsoft for releasing the Xbox Series S in black without upgrading the specs on it? I heavily disagree with your take here.
Saying "what we have had for years" feels very nitpicky. The OLED was released a year ago. For someone like me, who has had the deck since launch and is still rocking an LCD model with worse wifi, battery, charging, screen ect. this IS an upgrade. You expecting " a little bit more" is just foolish. Were you also expecting more with the first limited drop? Why would valve release a "limited" edition product that's better as a system than the regular version? How would a customer feel if they just bought a deck and a better deck comes out for 50 bucks more for a limited time? Low effort nitpicks in my opinion.
Hold up. The first "Limited" drop came out a year ago and launched alongside the original OLED line. This is one straight up out of the blue. Despite Valve saying that they had no improvements planned doesn't mean that I wanted nothing more than a color swap a year after the original launched. This is a handheld PC, not a Nintendo Switch.
@ other commenters on the video clearly think you’re overreacting too. Saying it’s been out for “so long” is crazy lol. It came out two years ago with a pretty successful revision a year later.
I never said that they did say there would be an improvement in specs. I simply said what I wanted. The video has a section about what I want in the future: 09:13
@baldlyrudy I've watched the whole video, and enjoyed it. Just the start threw me off a bit cause we can't be disappointed if we already knew what was coming. Valve said multiple times that they will only release a SD2 when a real generational improvement is technologically available.
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Valve has been very up front about the fact that they aren't going to be constantly upgrading and iterating every year, and they've made their reasons for that pretty clear. Feels like a bit of a strange take to be disappointed in them for being true to their word. Besides it's not like they advertised the white version as anything other than a cosmetic change.
You're not wrong, but I can't help but want something more after the Steam Deck being in the market for so long. Even something as small as a RAM increase improves a good amount.
@@baldlyrudy Have it really been in the market for long tho if we are being honest?
Its younger then the current consol generations and do we need and want it to be like a generic phone lineup? A new and more expensive one every new year?
Nah Im glad they are treating the Steam Deck more like old gaming gear when it comming to a longer life cycle.
Wating to get my first steam Deck this week and Im pretty sure It will atleast be until 2026 before we se a new Steam Deck 2.
@roundlake96 nah. Not every year. That's for sure. But that's definitely what CPU and GPU manufacturers do.
What I'd want is maybe something every other year. Or even on the third year?
@@baldlyrudy But the Steam Deck is not just a part, its a full system. No normal person swap their gpu or cpu every year. You wait until you get a good enough leep in performance and so far AMD has not done that when It comes to a Steam Deck 2.
And splitting the system as you want makes it harder for devs to work with it and thus lowers the quality worse for its users.
In generell we take progress for granted. Was not long ago it took a decade between consol generations. And money wise is it not better to get as much value as possible for your steam deck instead of feeling the need to swap to the next best thing?
Why did you expect different specs? I don't really get it. Special Editions aren't different specwise usually...
I just wanted something more. That's it.
I know it's cosmetic, but even if it was a little more RAM would've been nice.
@@baldlyrudy Well. I want a million dollars. But that's not how things work. Special Editions of any(!) tech usually isn't different specwise.
Agree, it’b be strange for Steam to touch on spec at this moment honestly, they just did it recently with the Oled. It’s a new color and it looks amazing, wouldn’t have expected anything else, unless they have marketed it
Is not everything we buy with money in this world designed to deplete our funds?
That's.....accurate.
I do not think Valve will release anything new for at least two years. But i am looking forward to zotac zone amoled
I am too. I just hope Zotac rethinks the specs on it. It was impressive at Computex, and it felt great in my hands. The good thing was they were very receptive of any criticism that myself and the rest of the people that I went with gave them. I hope they take it to heart.
I got the White Edition. Is the Black border really that bad on the white ?
For me, yeah. But that's because I have other Steam Decks that are all black. If this is the only one you have, it probably won't bother you at all. The handheld still looks clean and I like the aesthetics.
@@baldlyrudy Yeah I got mine but stopped using it since i realized that in racing games the stick auto goes left for some reason. Gyro was disabled and still the same issue. Got both the ally x and the white steam deck.
Valve has already said dozens of times that they are not upgrading the tech of the steam deck until technology has improved enough to justify a total hardware upgrade. They were always upfront about this whether it would be on blogs TH-cam channels, or their very own website
Yup. I mentioned that in the video.
Steamdeck is going good dor their not upgrading mid gen vs very often. Game industry need to slow down about graphical fidelity. Just look at swich. They gone full gameplay over graphics, and its paying off.
I mean, the original Steam Deck came out in February of 2022. It's been almost three years. How long should we wait to see something as small as 24GB vs 16GB RAM?
I think you're missing the point here. Valve has been very upfront about not upgrading the Steam Deck until there is a massive bump in performance without sacrificing battery life. They also said they don't think it's fair to the consumer to release new hardware every 1-2 years. I do understand that the Steam Deck is underpowered compared to other PC handhelds, and of course I would love to see a Steam Deck 2 at some point - but this was not that. This was also not a refresh, the Steam Deck OLED was the refresh. This is just a limited quantity color option, nothing more. Were you dissapointed in Microsoft for releasing the Xbox Series S in black without upgrading the specs on it? I heavily disagree with your take here.
That's fair.
The case make it look like a 🩲🤣
Saying "what we have had for years" feels very nitpicky. The OLED was released a year ago. For someone like me, who has had the deck since launch and is still rocking an LCD model with worse wifi, battery, charging, screen ect. this IS an upgrade. You expecting " a little bit more" is just foolish. Were you also expecting more with the first limited drop? Why would valve release a "limited" edition product that's better as a system than the regular version? How would a customer feel if they just bought a deck and a better deck comes out for 50 bucks more for a limited time? Low effort nitpicks in my opinion.
Hold up. The first "Limited" drop came out a year ago and launched alongside the original OLED line. This is one straight up out of the blue. Despite Valve saying that they had no improvements planned doesn't mean that I wanted nothing more than a color swap a year after the original launched. This is a handheld PC, not a Nintendo Switch.
@ other commenters on the video clearly think you’re overreacting too. Saying it’s been out for “so long” is crazy lol. It came out two years ago with a pretty successful revision a year later.
Improvement of specs? They never said it would. Its calles Steam Deck OLED White.
I never said that they did say there would be an improvement in specs. I simply said what I wanted. The video has a section about what I want in the future: 09:13
@baldlyrudy I've watched the whole video, and enjoyed it. Just the start threw me off a bit cause we can't be disappointed if we already knew what was coming. Valve said multiple times that they will only release a SD2 when a real generational improvement is technologically available.
@Herr.Mitternacht 100% agree we already knew what we were getting. Maybe next time I'll do this all in reverse. 😅
Garbage. I got mine and just didn't work
Did you plug it in before trying to turn it on?
@baldlyrudy yes it turned on . No controllers detected . Only power and volume . Touchscreen worked
@mgmtz9146 did you update to the latest firmware?