To be honest, RAM amount is far from being relevant on the Steam Deck. RAM speed is what’s crucially limiting it, and even a minor overclock gives noticeable improvements.

Adding new Samsung chips to achieve 32GB isn’t that relevant. Adding new chips that can sustain higher clocks and overclocking… Now we are talking.

Uh, actually RAM amount is the difference between some games being playable or not at all, and there are plenty of game issues related to insufficient/low memory

If you’re going to “uh, actually” me, do us a favor and show me a game not running on the Steam Deck due to lack of RAM.

I’m supposed to prove a negative? Do you want me to show a video of games crashing

Games that scale up with play (more players, growing environments, etc) tend to use more RAM over time, and especially such games with mods benefit from more RAM.

Anno, various building/construction games like Cities, Arm, DCS, Warzone whatever. Plenty of games will run with 8-16GB but run better with more. Yes, you can play the game with the “required” specs but that doesn’t mean they run great, and CPU/GPU isn’t always the bottleneck in larger environments.

I played through GoW on Deck but it definitely had a memory leak that would cause crashing after a bit. More RAM would have extended the play time despite that issue, and I’ve a couple other titles where the odd crash is likely for similar reasons.