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as a steam deck user, who would like to use it during shortish transits (20 minutes per ride) i'd like it to be a good bit smaller. the size of the ayn odin 2 mini would be ideal, with slightly recessed sticks, so you could easily pull it out of the backpack and put it back in quickly. yes, that's conflicting with others who would like to have a bigger screen, using it more like a travel console being tied to wall power, but that's personal preference.
outside of the usual spec bumps, that's all i could think of in terms of upgrades for the deck.
I can definitely see the benefit in smaller sized portables, but I do wonder at what point we reach diminishing returns. I can't help but think about the 3DS and PSP and how silly it would be to be trying to play Battlefield and CoD in the Steam Deck style. At the same time, I played Monster Hunter all the time on those, and MH:W on my phone with a controller and steam remote play.
So then I think about the types of games, like Disgaea and other J/RPG's and how a smaller Steam Deck would fit that well. Idk where I'm going with this, it's just interesting to think about how gaming is fractured based on the genre and form factor. I use my Steam Deck a lot to play games, but I'm playing games that I stopped playing on PC, because indie 2D side scrollers feel weird there.
Are we just going to get to the point where gamers have their 3DS/PSP sized portable, the Steam Deck sized portable, and the large tablet sized portable, each for specific games? Lol