t’s certainly been a journey for Valve. A week prior to the Steam Frame’s launch, we spoke with two engineers at Valve about the project: Joy Lyons, hardware engineer, and Jeremy Selan, software engineer. The memory crisis and the price were a big part of that conversation. From that chat, we can confirm that Valve had aimed for a lower price point than the one it’s launching the Frame for today.
Here’s Lyons on the memory crisis:
“We set out to design this hardware with one particular price in mind, but we’ve made choices to make sure that we’re making a product that is choiceful, that people can purchase, they can upgrade with different features later. But we wanted to make sure we had a base product with really great performance. Then that price target shifted due to the ongoing RAM crisis around the world.”
Lyons also said that forecasting for the cost of certain components used in the Steam Frame is an ongoing challenge.
Not exactly boding well of the Steam Deck 2.
That’s not correct. For one, I did not say they were more efficient. For another they can be similarly efficient and also larger and heavier, because they’re more powerful.
“Look at the new Intel handhelds, they just operate on a whole new level of efficiency.”
So the “whole new level of efficiency” isn’t better efficiency, it’s worse efficiency and the need for bigger batteries. Got it!
You are misunderstanding me because you’re not paying attention to your own words . “A new level of efficiency” is not the same as “more efficient than ARM processors”. It really just seems like you’re just more interested in “being right” and being a dick in general than any sort of good faith discussion so I’m gonna cut my losses and block you. Goodbye.