[Discussion] With the recent rumors of a possible hardware refresh, what are your most hoped for changes in an updated Steam Deck?

In the leaked info, we know that Valve has an upcoming device that will use the same APU as the current Steam Deck. We don’t know if this will be a new VR headset or a Steam Deck hardware refresh. Even though using the same APU means there won’t be a performance increase, there could be various other improvements in an upgraded Deck like a better screen, etc. What would you like to see in a partial hardware upgrade?

FARTYSHARTBLAST,
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Increased serviceability, especially when it comes to the battery.

Dual USB ports, one on top and one on bottom.

Hall effect controllers.

Increased efficiency/performance of course

Maybe a slightly bigger/better screen

eek2121,

Strip it down and make a Steam Machine out of it. Valve could likely sell a tiny set top box for under $100.

Fubarberry,
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The motherboard alone supposedly costs Valve somewhere around $270, so even with them selling the hardware at a loss I don’t think there’s any chance of getting a set top box for $100.

PrinzKasper,
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I would love adaptive triggers like the PS5 controller

skulblaka,
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I was very surprised it didn't ship with those at launch, so there's likely some licensing or patent issue with Sony over them. I wouldn't expect to see them outside of Playstation controllers anytime soon.

morgan_423,
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I’ll take a larger screen, the 7" is far too tiny for me for almost any game with text or captioning. Something in the 9" or slightly larger range would be golden, and you could get most of the way there by getting rid of the bezels. The actual Deck itself wouldn’t have to be that much bigger to accommodate the rest.

woelkchen,
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Deck lite.

Secret300,

I’d love a ps vita 1000 sized deck

rotopenguin,
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VRR would be the #1 upgrade. A mobile chip with mobile thermals and a mobile battery cannot consistently keep ahead of the screen refresh. The screen has to be the one to step down to where the APU is at.

Hall effect sticks, mandatory. My factory sticks started acting up after about a year. The Dreamcast could do it, don’t tell me that they’re too bleeding-edge expensive.

Squeeze a 2280 SSD in there instead of the 2230. I would give up SD and move the radios to a soldered miniboard for this.

Stop gluing the battery down.

joojmachine,

Unpopular opinion but I’d rather see wider worldwide availability before having a hardware refresh. Getting more Decks out there should be on top of the list before trying to sell upgrades, specially when the current deck does so much already.

Anonymousllama,

Still always supprised when I see Australia getting shafted when it comes to initial product launches. It’s fine though, it just means I won’t buy your product, no ones out there except for enthusiasts are doing to gray import these things.

Fizz,
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I waited patiently for about 6 months then I said fuck it they’ll never open shipping for nz and aus so I brought it from Europe and got it shipped. Cost me 3x the price lol.

Lonnie123,

It is a bit head scratching, but I have no idea what goes into world wide logistics. And now in the states they are even offering refurbished Decks, so they certainly appear to have enough product at this point to open things up. But maybe they dont have enough to open them up without creating another multi-month long backlog they dont want?? Who knows

Molecular0079,

I dunno, the Deck is already getting slightly negative press for being behind spec-wise compared to the other portables out there. Might not be worth increasing worldwide availability if everyone already thinks its about to become outdated. Maybe they can have Deck 1 and Deck 2 in parallel just at different price points, kinda like how the Series S and X does it.

entropicdrift,
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Better rumble/haptics differentiation

kib48,

an upgraded Wifi chip, the deck’s kinda sucks

id also like either VRR or OLED

mordack550,

Why does it suck? Asking because i wanted to buy a deck and i will definitely use it for streaming.

twistypencil,

Compared to my laptop or phone, when I’m in the furthest spot away from the AP, it will drop out. Other devices stay connected, just slow down

zyeri,

I noticed that yesterday with my deck, I was a bit far away from the AP yesterday and while my phone was connected fine the deck wasn’t able to connect at all; it put a pause on me trying to resume AC6 on the deck until I could get it back in range to update.

kib48,

it doesn’t handle 5ghz very well, which leads to insane artifacting and input lag spikes

mordack550,

This is sad to hear. What streaming app do you use? Steam Link or Moonlight? On my Shield TV moonlight is insanely better than steam link

kib48,

I used xCloud actually. It handled Moonlight/Sunshine moderately well but steam link sucked

skymtf,

I would say a APU with some RT Cores, and maybe 1080p. If not 720p OlED will be fine. I know this is likely to compete with the ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion both of which have 1080p screens

rotopenguin,
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I don’t think raytracing on a 15w power budget is going to happen anytime soon.

dlove67,

The APU thats in the deck already has “RT cores”. At least, inasmuch as any RDNA2+ device has them.

Though I really doubt this is an updated deck, and much more likely to be “Deckard”.

twistypencil,

What is Deckard?

dlove67,

The rumored standalone VR headset from Valve

Tywele,

1080p is so unnecessary at this size IMO.

butter,

There’s nothing that would make me get a half upgrade like that. But I would like to see improvements toward a steam deck 2. If this gets an oled screen, I’d like to see a model in number 2 with an oled screen

frank,

The dream? User swappable battery. I would gladly trade up for that

Secret300,

That’d be so nice. With a very small internal battery so you can swap batteries without turning it off

frank,

Or even just living on charger then, but yeah that would be sick!

smajl,

That sound nice on paper but reality is different. I have had two laptops with double (24Wh)batteries (Lenovo T450 and A485) and batteries in both of them degraded fairly quickly compared to other single-battery models.

independantiste,
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An OLED display with slimmer bezels, and a battery that uses more user serviceable glue

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