Steam Deck OLED kills the original's Aerith processor with a Sephiroth upgrade as Valve flexes its Final Fantasy 7 fandom
Steam Deck's built on a classic JRPG reference

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Steam Deck OLED is upon us, and it's got a new processor revision codenamed Sephiroth that's really showing off the depths of Valve's JRPG fandom.
Both the new and old Steam Decks make use of an APU - an 'accelerated processing unit' that combines the CPU and GPU onto a single chip. Manufacturer AMD called the ♋APU that powered the original Steam Deck by the codename Van Gogh. But ꦅinside Valve, that APU earned the moniker Aerith, a reference to Final Fantasy 7's beloved flower girl.
note. Yes, even in the world of Steam Deck processors, Sephiroth still kills Aerith in the end.This all might be a bit of a spoiler, but 'Sephiroth kills Aerith' is the gaming equivalent of 'Vader is Luke's father' - the kind of plot twist so widely discussed that it's tough to avoid absorbing by pure cultural osmosis. While 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth might be in line to introduce a new generation of fans to this particular heartbreak, numerous teasers suggest that the devs a🔴re thinking about subverting that original twist - or, at least, they want us to believe t🔯hat migꦬht be the case.
As for the Steam Deck, you shouldn't expect to see much difference between Aerith and Sephiroth in the end. The Sephiroth-powered OLED model isn't expected 🍒to offer a massive performance leap, and the 256GB version of the Aerith-powered original is sticking around with a price drop as the new entry-level model.
The real question is what the processing unit of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"next-generation" Steam Deck 2 will be called. Personally, I'm hoping for 'Tifa,' purely because of the fireworks that the 'Tifa is better than Aerith' jokes would launch.
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