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While I like the concept... isn't that a bit of what killed the initial steam machines. IE they basically encouraged everyone and their grandmother to release one... and the end result was the name was dilluted down so badly that no one knew what a steam machine was.
The problem then was the immaturity of Linux for gaming. Valve has done a shit ton of work to make that possible and focused on a specific experience with the steam deck for several years. Now they're just expanding and building on that success, which is awesome to see.
I fully agree that was "a problem". but I fully hold to the fragmented hardware also being a significant problem. IMO the steam deck still significantly makes gains from being a consistant hardware target for dev's to base things on, in addition to basically having little to no consumer confusion, if a game says "will run on steam deck", it's safe to assume, it will run on a steam deck. This time around valve specifically hasn't released a steam deck 2, because they want to avoid any hardware confusion.
All these handhelds have decent AMD hardware, I would bet money that absolutely any new steamOS handheld will have similar or more powerful hardware than the OG deck. This new Lenovo device specifically is more powerful than the OG deck as well.
And with steamOS being Linux, a free and open source system, hardware fragmentation wont really be a thing. With Android hardware fragmentation was bad because many devices would never get updated after a year or so, but this is true Linux and valve is a consumer friendly company so I don't really know what you mean talking about hardware fragmentation.
This is great for valve, and great for gamers. There is no down side to this.