""The thing we're making sure of is that it's a worthwhile enough performance upgrade [for a Steam Deck 2] to make sense as a standalone product," Griffais told IGN. "We're not interested in getting to a point where it's 20 or 30 or even 50 percent more performance at the same battery life. We want something a little bit more demarcated than that.""
""So we've been working back from silicon advancements and architectural improvements, and I think we have a pretty good idea of what the next version of Steam Deck is going to be, but right now there's no offerings in that landscape, in the SoC [System on a Chip] landscape, that we think would truly be a next-gen performance Steam Deck," Griffais continued."
Valve intends any Steam Deck successor to deliver a noticeably larger performance leap that justifies a standalone product rather than modest upgrades. The company rejects incremental 20–50 percent performance increases at the same battery life and seeks a more clearly demarcated improvement. Development decisions are being driven by silicon and architectural advances, but currently available SoC offerings do not meet the required threshold. Competing handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally X use an eight-core Zen 5-based AMD chip that outperforms the Steam Deck’s four-core Zen 2, though such devices often require larger batteries and still drain quickly under heavy load.
Read at Ars Technica
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