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24 hours agoI think Valve should really make the current „Betas“-Feature more prominent, and rename it to „Versions“ or something. It should* be pretty easy for Firaxis to just offer an old, cross-play enabled version there, while updating the regular version more frequently on PC. That would make disabling such features unnecessary.
I’ve seen only a few developers actually making use of „Beta“s in that way, but I think it would be very useful in cases like this.
* there could, of course, be other technical issues preventing them from doing that, which only their developers know of
I think Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais explained their plans for a Steam Deck 2 pretty well in this interview (starting at 8:36).
Paraphrasing: They are happy to work with other companies, but the people at Valve also have their own ideas and goals for hardware. And they want to be able to set the bar for these ideas themselves. That‘s why they‘re working on a Steam Deck 2.
And when you look at how well that setting the bar worked with the Deck, I‘m really glad that they want to follow up on that.
I own a GPD Win 2, a handheld PC from a few years before the Deck was a thing. That device couldn‘t be charged while using it, it had its speakers wired the wrong way, it constantly overheated and was a pain to use because of that. Ever since the Deck came out, the whole handheld PC market, including GPD, improved their device quality by a country mile.
And that‘s one of the best things about the Deck, in my opinion, and will hopefully also be one of the best things about the Deck 2.