Is the Steam Deck performance struggling with new AAA games? Should I be concerned buying a Steam Deck now?

I’m guessing/hoping not because most game developers would optimise the games for the Switch 2 and Xbox Series S which have similar performances as the Deck.

I think 30 fps (consistent) is perfectly fine, and I don’t mind medium details.

  • simple@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It depends, a lot of modern AAA games run fine but a good amount of them are very unoptimized and run poorly on the Deck.

    Valve said not to expect a hardware refresh soon since newer chips are more expensive and not that much faster, just look at the handheld PCs selling for ~$900 that are only 25% faster.

    There are plenty of benchmarks online so you can check if the games you want will work properly or not.