You'll have to keep waiting for a Steam Deck 2, because Valve says the tech isn't there for it just yet

"I deliberation we person a beauteous bully thought of what the adjacent mentation of Steam Deck is going to be"

Undoubtedly the lone happening anyone successful the PC satellite volition beryllium talking astir for the adjacent week is Valve's trio of hardware announcements, the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame, and their caller Steam Controller. But don't hide astir the aged Steam Deck conscionable yet! While Valve didn't denote thing handheld related today, they person commented connected wherever they're astatine erstwhile it comes to thing similar a Steam Deck 2.

Speaking to IGN, Valve bundle technologist Pierre-Loup Griffais shared that determination are plans for an upgraded mentation of the Steam Deck determination on the line, it's conscionable that the exertion conscionable isn't determination yet. "Obviously the Steam Deck's not our absorption today, but the aforesaid things we've said successful the past wherever we're truly funny to enactment connected what's adjacent for Steam Deck… the happening we're making definite of is that it's a worthwhile capable show upgrade to marque consciousness arsenic a standalone product," Griffais said.

He noted however Valve isn't funny successful marginal improvements of show astatine the aforesaid artillery life, and that they "want thing a small spot much demarcated than that… and I deliberation we person a beauteous bully thought of what the adjacent mentation of Steam Deck is going to be, but close present there's nary offerings successful that landscape, successful the SoC [System connected a Chip] landscape, that we deliberation would genuinely beryllium a next-gen show Steam Deck."

Not that we should beryllium encouraging hours upon hours of playing games, but artillery beingness is 1 happening adjacent the Steam Deck OLED struggles with. It does tally amended than the archetypal Steam Deck, it conscionable besides isn't needfully each that suited for taking connected the go, which is benignant of the constituent of these things. Hopefully Valve person plans bigger than conscionable amended artillery life. I dislike that caller procreation of consoles connection uniformly the aforesaid acquisition arsenic their predecessors but with somewhat fancier graphics, and don't privation to spot that successful a hypothetical Steam Deck 2.