• GBU_28
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    9 months ago

    There are games that aren’t appropriate for the hardware, 18 months old or not.

    Some people struggle to grasp that.

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      9 months ago

      That’s my point. This is a quote from the Steam Deck website:

      We partnered with AMD to create Steam Deck’s custom APU, optimized for handheld gaming. It is a Zen 2 + RDNA 2 powerhouse, delivering more than enough performance to run the latest AAA games in a very efficient power envelope.

      If I read that and bought a Steam Deck, then found out that it can’t run a new release smoothly, I wouldn’t be very happy.

      It’s all well and good having a compatibility list for released games, but their marketing makes it sound like it can play anything.

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        9 months ago

        A fair point.

        Not moving the goalposts but steam offers the playability index. So to know “which” AAA games at “what” performance is really varied.

        I think it is a bunch of media speak that they wrote there and is a poor representation of what the hardware can honestly do.

        As always, it pays to research purchases thoroughly.