u/Dudewitbow

the company search is probably using fuzzy search, so any company that has the term valve, and corporation somewhere in it would show up in the search.

feel free to look up shipping manifests of other companies on it to show examples e.g Nintendo of America

https://en.nbd.ltd/customs-data?t=2&v=Valve+Corporation

wireless game controller is its own option seperate from the game consoles

its clear its not the controller. what is not clear is if the shipments are either steam deck restocks, steam machine, or steam frames.

because the steam deck used in the project had a broken screen.

RDNA2 > RDNA3 is liek ~10% gen over gen, so gpu wise, its still sort of behind. CPU wise, Zen 2 > Zen 4 is a huge jump

it basically has less cpu cores, (6c/12t vs ps5 8c/16t) and less GPU compute units (28CU vs 36CU), however the GabeCube uses newer CPU and GPU architecture compared to the PS5 (Zen 4 vs PS5's Zen 2, RDNA3 instead of PS5's RNDA2) to make up a little bit of ground. hence why if you had to give it a rough performance, its near a PS5, but not exactly quite there.

dont expect much from the machine performance wise given its specs (basically assume about ps5 performance)

the vr headset though is actually the more interesting product when it comes to effort put into it.

curious to see how much the snapdragon 8 gen 3 handles linux arm to x86 performance. ive seen the same chipset for android arm to x86 performance (see arm based chinese handhelds like Ayn Odin, using game native/game hub)

pitching the headset as both a vr device and what is essentially a monitor/all in one is a choice.

the removal on the icon was supposedlu just gor icon simplification rather than on the physical product.

including 2 touchpads already makes the icon fairly recognizable for what controller its trying to convey

in a comment that was removed from the post, this data was in a decompilaion of steamvr binaries. which implies potentially vr related

i dont know source though. take with grain of salt

https://i.imgur.com/z9Bq2hb.png

its partly windows, and partly 8 core AMD CCDs that handhelds dont need.

Lenovo was given a holy ball (Z2 go cpu, basically 4c/8t zen 3 cpu and 12 rdna 2 cu cores (as apposed to the zen 2 and 8 cu rdna2 the steam deck has) and if they priced it at 600 tops and go down from there. it would be extremely competitive.

lenovo is basically like nah, 750$ it is. and i think its the reverse (starts at 600 and goes up)

id imagine part of the deal on getting first dibs on xbox full screen mode is that they werent allowed to officially support Steam OS. Lenovo is on the opposite end of the relationship where they had a legion go s run with steam os, but was not invited to use xbox full screen.

welcome to the tech world, where trying to cozy with competition can lead to blacklists.

take for example, there are oems who used to make Nvidia gpus, tried to do a side AMD hustle and got blacklisted by Nvidia (e.g XFX), and Nvidia has not so many good relationships with some of its old partners (EVGA, Apple)

SteamOS exists because of Valves fear of the chance that Microsoft would blacklist or strongarm the platform into a more appstore like experience.

big tech companies hold a lot of fucking power

Lenovo likely doesnt want to blatently get on Microsofts bad side. Basically skirting business to business relationships.

for example if down the line the xbox full screen mode is decent, you probably dont want to be glazing your opposition.

arms not ready yet for gaming. id expect at least 1 more generation of x86 hardware. especially if AMDs 1W optimized efficiency cores end up becoming an option.

its more or less the pro/con of strong labor laws vs at will.

strong labor laws guarantees both sides will have some body to work a position, but theyre almost handcuffed together forever, so its extremely imperative to find the correct candidate.

at will has poor job security, but you have the freedom to get out of the contract with the other party as long as its not a protected reason. at will lets people jump jobs more often which is better for increasing your pay. but it has a shit saftey net, so the people at the bottom struggle.

not all companies, but companies trying to fire an employee till they willigly quit will force them to do remidial stuff. due to strong labor laws in japan, its required that BOTH the company and employee agree to quit/get laid off to actually be an official transaction. its part of the reason why an employee might feel like theyre stuck in a company their entire life.

emphasis again, this does NOT apply to all companies

the time period also was during the height of adoptions, which was also the time period of kidnappings.

basically the demand for children was at a high, and there were a lot of bad actors in the market "making supply" where that supply came from varied.

the steam deck sits in a pretty decent position long term because the switch 2 has roughly similar performance levels as it. so developers would have double the reason to get a game working at said performance level.

which is the same logic as a screen if it gets THAT bad. that's not any real reason to complain about Oleds when the battery in it will die out sooner.

OLED screen replacements already exist on iFixit who is the repair partner for valve.

you can argue the "consumable nature" of li-ion batteries is likely to hit earlier than the consumable nature of oled realistically speaking.