like I said, the deck was not their own design. it was a leftover design that they ended up picking up. If it was their design, then the Ryzen Z2A would not exist. and valve has already said they aren’t using the Aerith Plus cpu. If it’s their design, why would there be a plus model, and why would they not be using it.
And I don’t think we would disagree that the Deck has been a wild success.
yes, its a sucess, reletive to other PC handhelds, but Even valve could not sell 10M of them. the fact that AMD offered Microsoft a 10M min production run, and they declined it, its not going to be any better for valve. Valve just uses whats cheap for them.
For example with the steam machine, theres ABSOLUTELY no reason why they needed to use a seperate gpu, and seperate cpu, and not used shared memory, instead, forking out 24gb total memory (16/8 split) between hardware. It’s only like that because they had little choice.
if valve had an option, they would have liked to get the ryzen ai max 385, but it was never gonna happen due to pricing, so they had to opt to go seperate cpu/gpu theyre getting cheap.
like I said, the deck was not their own design. it was a leftover design that they ended up picking up. If it was their design, then the Ryzen Z2A would not exist. and valve has already said they aren’t using the Aerith Plus cpu. If it’s their design, why would there be a plus model, and why would they not be using it.
yes, its a sucess, reletive to other PC handhelds, but Even valve could not sell 10M of them. the fact that AMD offered Microsoft a 10M min production run, and they declined it, its not going to be any better for valve. Valve just uses whats cheap for them.
For example with the steam machine, theres ABSOLUTELY no reason why they needed to use a seperate gpu, and seperate cpu, and not used shared memory, instead, forking out 24gb total memory (16/8 split) between hardware. It’s only like that because they had little choice.
if valve had an option, they would have liked to get the ryzen ai max 385, but it was never gonna happen due to pricing, so they had to opt to go seperate cpu/gpu theyre getting cheap.