It’s mobile. You can’t just shove power at it to get the results you want. The alternatives have marginally higher power (mostly at higher power draw), but the performance difference is nowhere near enough to justify calling it a 2. There are not x86 chips capable of doing meaningfully better within the power envelope the Deck has to have to function.
Yeah, the more powerful handhelds do it by dumping 75% more power into the APU for like a 30% power increase.
It works for handling some more demanding games, but when you’re draining the battery that quickly it doesn’t feel like a portable game system anymore.
More like it’s too expensive or can’t be manufactured at scale, but sure I guess it’s kind of the same thing.
“Doesn’t exist” is more accurate than that is.
It’s mobile. You can’t just shove power at it to get the results you want. The alternatives have marginally higher power (mostly at higher power draw), but the performance difference is nowhere near enough to justify calling it a 2. There are not x86 chips capable of doing meaningfully better within the power envelope the Deck has to have to function.
Yeah, the more powerful handhelds do it by dumping 75% more power into the APU for like a 30% power increase.
It works for handling some more demanding games, but when you’re draining the battery that quickly it doesn’t feel like a portable game system anymore.
No shit? You want to pay 800€ for a videogame console?
At current currency conversion rates, that’d be $854.
I’m sure the Neo Geo was up there, at least in inflation-adjusted terms.
googles
https://www.ign.com/articles/comparing-the-price-of-every-game-console-with-inflation
Yeah, and apparently the 3DO actually slightly edged it out. $1,238.52 for the Neo Geo in 2020 dollars, and $1,246.96 for the 3DO.
It looks like the Intellivision made it there, too, at $916.46.
Now, granted, none of those dominated the market (though I remember a lot of kids who wished that they had a Neo Geo).
You’re not wrong, the Steam Deck was sold at a loss and there was that CPU shortage going on. I’m not sure if it’s still an issue.