@osan0: The only source I can remember off the top of my head accrediting the rumor is Moore’s Law Is Dead, but my recollection around the intro of the SD was it being accepted as true.
@osan0: It’s a long-standing rumor that it was a design by MS engineers in tandem with AMD and shelved when execs decided there wasn’t enough upside to chasing the handheld market (imagine a $400 Xbox alongside a $299 XboxS and $500 XboxX).
Valve dabbles in hardware but few believe they had retained on-staff someone with the engineering pedigree to develop a chip of this kind. So it’s believed that they came across the SOC, asked MS if they could use it without incurring a fee, and MS allowed them to since they were of the mind that more handheld PCs was better for everyone.
I believe it. Steamdeck's SOC was developed by MS, now they're realizing the handheld game market is where the next generation of players is going to be sourced.
Animal Crossing, Monster Hunter, Yakuza, Witcher, Trails of Cold Steel, DMC (minus the first hour out of every game), Tales series, almost every fighting game franchise, and Phoenix Wright.
Suddenly I see I don’t play many Capcom games. I should change that.
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