• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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.