Steam Deck 2 Isn’t Coming Anytime Soon
September 22, 2023, 6:29 pm
Steam Deck has been an immense success for Valve and the company has previously expressed its desire to bring a successor to its portable PC. However, as much as the company wants a new handheld and the players desire it, the Steam Deck 2 is not coming for a “couple of years.”
As reported by The Verge, Valve’s representative Pierre-Loup Griffais revealed these details on the new console in a recent interview and said that the company looks to get a significant increase in performance in the next Steam Deck while ensuring power efficiency.
Steam Deck 2 is Coming But Not For A Couple of Years
Steam Deck 2 is not coming for a couple of years, confirms Valve representative
Steam Deck was launched in early 2022 and soon became the contender for the best console of the year. The handheld although had some issues such as its battery life, can run PC titles smoothly. The players have been hoping for Steam Deck 2 and Valve representative, Pierre-Loup Griffais had some updates.
Griffais, while talking to The Verge said that Steam Deck will not arrive for a couple of years and it could be until at least the end of 2025 or even 2026. Griffais stated,
“It’s important to us that the Deck offers a fixed performance target for developers, and that the message to customers is simple, where every Deck can play the same games. As such, changing the performance level is not something we are taking lightly, and we only want to do so when there is a significant enough increase to be had.”
He further added,
“We also don’t want more performance to come at a significant cost to power efficiency and battery life. I don’t anticipate such a leap to be possible in the next couple of years, but we’re still closely monitoring innovations in architecture and fabrication processes to see where things are going there.”
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According to Griffais, Valve aims to make sure the Steam Deck 2 can play the same games without affecting the device’s performance. He said the company is cautious about the performance and they do not want performance by compromising the battery life and power efficiency.
Valve is aiming to improve performance with Steam Deck 2 but not at the cost of battery life
Griffais also confirmed that the company is going all out to make a Steam Deck successor with “innovations in architecture and fabrication” but Valve can’t maintain both performance and battery life in the next few years.
He admitted that the console has faced a major problem with its battery life. The battery life of Steam Deck is a big issue while running both SteamOS and Windows and Valve needs to find a solution to this if it wants to do better with the next iteration.
The prospect of Steam Deck 2 is exciting and with what Valve has planned, the company should hold out and launch the hardware it best believes in. It would be exciting to see what Valve has in store for gamers and would the console be able to beat new and faster handhelds such as Asus ROG Ally.
Steam Deck 2 will most probably come at the end of 2025 or early 2025, no sooner than that
There have also been rumors that Steam Deck 2 could have an OLED display. While it is expected for the new console to at least have double the performance, it remains to be seen if Valve will just bring new powerful hardware or will also solve the problems plaguing the console.
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Payday 3 CEO Apologises for Bungled Mess of a Launch
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September 22, 2023, 6:23 pm
Tobias Sjögren, the CEO of game producer Starbreeze Studios, has taken to X to apologise for the mess of launch day for Payday 3. Gamers have been left infuriated by the wrong game builds, server crashes, and matchmaking taking forever and a day while still unable to get into the game.
Starbreeze Back From The Brink of Death
Starbreeze is a game producer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Starbreeze’s more popular games include The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Payday 2, and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, a pretty good repertoire, but in early 2000 they had to merge with 03 Games, then fell into severe financial difficulty and had to lay off many employees and cut back on certain projects. Even though they had these difficulties, they produced the critically acclaimed The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.
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Early access for Payday 3 was on September 18, but the bulk of the players overloaded the servers on the launch day, as Payday 3 was not only released on PS5, PC, and Xbox Game Pass, where players pay a subscription and effectively get the game for free. Players were left angered as many of them, whilst trying to queue for matches, left ‘searching’ what seemed to be endlessly and facing server crashes.
Tobias Sjögren, CEO of developer Starbreeze Studios, took to the social media platform X to apologise for the unexpected start to Payday 3, the sequel to Payday 2. Here is what he said.
“We are so sorry that the infrastructure didn’t hold up as expected, and although it’s impossible to prepare for every scenario, we should be able to do better. We work tirelessly until we have restored all services and our players can get back to heisting again without issues.”
Not only did Tobias Sjögren take to X, so did lead producer Andreas Häll-Penninger say that PlayStation faced more problems because the wrong patch had been uploaded; he said “Sony is working on rolling out the proper patch”.
Why Always-Online Gaming?
Many gamers are now re-asking the question, why do so many games have to have an always-online requirement? Many games these days have an online requirement. In the case of Payday 3, gamers are asking why. This question has been asked by plenty of players because in Payday 2, you could play offline mode where you could complete heists with AI-controlled players. In spite of all of this, other players have asked for pause functions online. Andreas Häll-Penninger seems to be listening to the players on the multiple platforms and said on X.
“Heisters, I hear you wish to be able to pause the game, and I see the benefit of doing that. We’re fully focused on the launch right now, but we’ll evaluate this once the game is out as a potential QoL update. As always, thanks for sharing your feedback; keep it coming!”
There have been a large number of gamers saying this disaster of a launch day for Payday 3 is a prime example of why you should wait to buy new games to let developers fix bugs and numerous other problems so you buy the game when it has reached its full potential. One user on Reddit said, “Payday 3 feels like the kind of game that is not meant for day-one purchases“. So it is safe to say not the best start for Payday 3 lets hope they can fix the problems and make it the great game it should be.
Have you played Payday 3 on launch? Was the apology warranted? Let us know in the comments.
Source: Kotaku
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