Valve Reveals Why Steam Deck 2 Has Not Launched Yet And it's Not Pricing
We love handhelds around here, and no one more than me. We just dropped our full review of the new MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, and the performance numbers are absolutely wild. In our testing, its Intel Arc G3 Extreme processor completely dunks on AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme by an average of about 40%, and up to 72% in certain games. It even manages to be almost twice as efficient as AMD’s flagship handheld chip in a few titles thanks to reduced power draw. It’s an incredible hardware achievement, but it also perfectly illustrates exactly why Valve isn't rushing out a Steam Deck 2.
See, the catch is that the Arc G3 Extreme is fundamentally a laptop-derived processor. It operates best at laptop-level power limits of 15W or above. To keep a power-hungry chip like that running for a solid gaming session, vendors like MSI have to stuff a...
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