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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Steam Deck hits a sweet spot. You can make it more powerful, but it'll cost significantly more. You can make it cheaper, but you'll cut out too many games people want to play.

Also, anything like this with a resolution higher than 720p is wasting pixels and GPU power, IMO.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  1. you couldn't make it more powerful, it had the best of the best.
  2. my eyes work, and I still I don't think clearer text and UI is a waste
[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are several competitors that are more powerful, like the ROG Ally. They also need a bigger battery to support it, or they have worse battery life. And they're more expensive.

Clear text and UI is an issue because games don't scale their shit properly.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Those came after, Valve hasn’t a time machine (as far as I know)

You’re right about games not scaling shit properly, but that’s 99% of the time in gen 8 (console-first) games, where those games where designed solely for big screens with HD+ resolutions. Modern games have already started figuring out scaling for different resolutions and aspect ratios

[–] figjam@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

Higher resolution will mean smaller text by default.