I don’t know why people are so eager for it, the deck is great, it’s a great purchase. I wish I had gotten the OLED, but I’m very very happy with it. I don’t see that it needs to be replaced annually or even every 2-3 years. It’s like the switch, why not go 4+ years before hardware drives that a new one is possible

Because the first Deck was underpowered at release and is several years old at this point. It’s overdue for a sequel, hopefully one that can handle games at a reasonable resolution this time around.

Underpowered?! I can play fucking Elden Ring!

At Ultra with no dips below 90 FPS @1440p?

How is that the standard for a thing that costs less than just my graphics card and is fully portable?? I don’t even need my gaming pc to do that shit.

For what it is, the steam deck performs exceedingly well.

It’s not, but it should be.

It’s like people (like you) forget that not that long ago, a high-end graphics card used to cost $300. It is entirely possible to go back to those days, but greed is holding us back. There’s no reason why Valve couldn’t make a $500 Steam Deck that runs games at 1440p with RT. But Nvidia’a greed and AMD’s inability to keep up in the GPU sector (along with their greed) is holding us back.