Valve Has No News About Steam Deck 2

Valve has conscionable announced its biggest hardware push that it’s arguably ever made — a surviving room crippled console called the Steam Machine, a headset called the Steam Frame, and nan long-awaited sequel to its Steam Controller it hinted astir 3 years back.

But Valve won’t opportunity nan first connection astir its adjacent gaming handheld, nan Steam Deck 2.

“Steam Deck is not what we’re present to talk astir today,” Valve package technologist Pierre-Loup Griffais told america astatine nan very opening of our briefing. “It’s benignant of related but not really,” he said, earlier launching into a chat of really nan Steam Deck’s learnings underpinned each caller merchandise that it’s announcing today.

The institution wouldn’t show america if nan caller drift-resistant TMR joysticks it’s introducing successful nan Steam Controller and Steam Frame’s wands will make it into a early Steam Deck, either. “We’re ever reasoning astir Steam Deck and ways to amended it successful nan future,” says Valve hardware technologist Steve Cardinali erstwhile I ask. (He besides says Valve presently has nary plans to connection nan TMR joysticks arsenic a drop-in module for nan original Deck.)

While Valve has repeatedly confirmed that nan Steam Deck will person sequels, nan company’s besides many times been clear that it’s successful nary hurry to bring them to market. Since 2022, Griffais has consistently told us that Valve wants to spot a important leap successful capacity and ratio earlier it takes nan plunge. “We really do want to hold for a generational leap successful compute without sacrificing artillery life earlier we ship the existent 2nd generation of Steam Deck,” is really Valve’s Lawrence nan concisely reiterated it to Reviews.org successful 2024.

The mobility now is: will Valve find that leap successful capacity and ratio from x86? Because while Valve initially thought its standalone VR headset mightiness tally connected nan existing Steam Deck’s chip, nan institution conscionable announced the Steam Frame pinch an Arm processor alternatively — utilizing emulation to fto it play immoderate Windows games locally connected nan headset. Griffais tells maine he thinks Arm has “a batch of potential” successful early handhelds someday.

Valve tells america nan Frame has a little capacity target than nan astir four-year-old Steam Deck, truthful it would request a acold much potent Arm spot to powerfulness specified a handheld. Qualcomm, successful particular, has been working connected Arm chips for handhelds, though, and 1 of its customers for nan latest was moreover interested successful discussing a imaginable SteamOS handheld pinch Valve.

It’s besides imaginable Valve already recovered its adjacent Steam Deck spot successful AMD’s early roadmaps — for illustration it did pinch nan original Steam Deck — and is simply waiting for it to arrive.

None of that needfully intends you should expect an Arm-based Steam Deck 2 conscionable yet, though.