KThe deck is not a 60 FPS 25 watt handheld, it is a 15 w handheld design to play modern PC games for hours on the go
KIf you want something different, the answer is a different handheld and not something valve does not want to deliver
Hhandhelds is a balancing act to try cater to people
you either get 1080p 60fps and crap battery (unless you want to go the 1600p legion go route)
or you get 800p/720p 40-90fps and decent battery if you are smart
you either get 1080p 60fps and crap battery (unless you want to go the 1600p legion go route)
or you get 800p/720p 40-90fps and decent battery if you are smart
KI don't want them to deliver that, I don't want that product
Canyway fuck x86 we need an ARM handheld using Snapdragon X Elite
Cthe battery life and efficiency would be insane
KNow your games are going to actually run like dog shit
Cdepends
KThis is a real stardew valley gaming handheld
Cwith Box64? absolutely
CPrism? potentially chance of being nearly as good as Rosetta
KThe steam deck outperforms a $2,000 MacBook in CS2
KBeing as good as Rosetta is not a win
Ca $2000 MacBook is not made to game
AI should also note
ARosetta only works as well as it does becuase it's just a stopgap
Cyou can design a decent ARM chip with good power for gaming
Athe BIG thing apple does
Ato make the transition work
KIt's also cheating in hardware to accomplish that
Ais Universal Binary, aka Fat Binary
KWhich I admit is a very cool solution
Awhich is when they just
CI have faith in Prism to be something similar
Acompile both x86 and arm64 code and slap it in one file
Aso it's native code
CBox64 will never get good performance for anything game related though
Arosetta is just there to act as a stop gap while things pull themselves together to get universal binary support and all that
VLike what? I'd say whatever the latest snapdragon flagship is was made for gaming and I guarantee that also does not outperform a £350 steam deck.
Aonce they do that, the need for Rosetta goes away
AI mean they literally did this already with the PPC to Intel migration
Aexactly the same way
ARosetta 1 and fat binaries with Universal Binary
KYeah, zero faith that Apple keeps that around a microsecond longer than they need for their own purposes
KI can see why valve dropped caring for Apple products
CAMD and Snapdragon partner together to make a killer ARM chip in the future
CAnd these handhelds run either Prism and WoA or some Valve equivalent
ARosetta only exists as a temporary stopgap until software devs start building Fat Binaries that support both platforms and then when the old platform is discontinued they just kill both Rosetta and Universal Binary
Cwe will then have insane battery life
Hwasnt "apple engineers being impossible to actually contact on any issues" a bigger issue (at least from what i remember)
AAlso Rosetta 2 technically uses some silicon level cheats that are designed into the chip to help with performance
VAnd still less performance than if it was x86
Cslightly, but the translation costs will improve
Ax86 is always going to have a place in this world
Cinitially it will be shit
Aespecially with the sheer amount of software in its catalog
KYeah, also things like refusing to support Vulkan
VRosetta 2's translation is literally using the parts of x86 that are hardest to emulate to speed it up and it still sucks.
AOh yeah btw Apple has done the Fat Binary thing THREE TIMES BTW
CValve would need to sponsor or financially buy out the Box64 guys if you want any progress in the Linux world on this
