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So, I kinda feel like buying before Summer Sale ends, but I have mainly one doubt. That is, does it make sense to buy now?
I remember reading news about the next installment of Steam Deck right after it came out. I really wouldn't like it if I bought and next year something new came out and my device would already be outdated (not from a specs point of view, I know it isn't particularly powerful or anything). For the same reason I usually prefer consoles over gaming computers, since generations have more or less a fixed time length (I hated last generation's mid-gen upgrades) while new CPUs and GPUs basically come out every year or so. But this is another story.
So, do you know anything about the next Steam Deck? What's your advice for someone in my situation?
Personally, I think I could put up with the next Deck coming out in, say, two years. But before that?.. I don't know, I'm afraid I would feel like I wasted money.

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[–] james2432@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

They invested heavily in custom CPU/GPU silicon, there's no way SD2 is releasing any time soon. Especially that this combo was bleeding edge for battery/performance AMD has more R&D to do