Valve confirm Steam Deck won't have annual releases. Deck 2 on hold until a generational leap in compute performance takes place

[Gizmo_Duck]

This is pretty interesting in case anyone was holding out for a ‘Steam Deck 2’

Valve Steam Deck interview: Finally, Steam Deck lands in Australia Valve opens up about what took so damn long for the Steam Deck to get to Australia

Valve tells all in terms of making the Steam Deck, what they wish they had for the OLED and why it took so long to get to Australia.

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We sat down with two of Valve's Steam Deck designers, Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, ahead of the announcement that Steam Deck is coming to Australia

The Steam Deck 2 is about as much a well-kept secret as Deadlock, albeit the latter's existence is official now and the former is acknowledged but still sees quite a way off. When I expressed concern that Steam Deck competitors were seemingly all too willing to release hardware refreshes after a year, Yang clarified that Valve isn't interested in that approach for Steam Deck.

"It is important to us, and we've tried to be really clear, we are not doing the yearly cadence," said Yang. "We're not going to do a bump every year. There's no reason to do that. And, honestly, from our perspective, that's kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that's only incrementally better. So we really do want to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before we ship the real second generation of Steam Deck. But it is something that we're excited about and we're working on."

 

[bnew]

do they do chip design?

 

[-DMP-]

I respect it

 

[The Mad Titan]

That's ruff, hope people really enjoying they deck now

 

[Jaguar93]

Microsoft please save handheld gaming

 

[CarltonJunior]

They gotta be careful tho cuz these smaller foreign companies are quietly creating handheld PC systems that are going to be better than the Steam Deck, if not already

 

[rdj]

Who was thinking there would be a new steam deck every year?

 

[Phillyrider807]

I respect the support they giving the device. There are other options available for people who need the extra power.

 

[daze23]

it's funny when they talk about "Steam Deck competitors", when those other PC handhelds will be used to buy games off Steam

 

[CarltonJunior]

it's funny when they talk about "Steam Deck competitors", when those other PC handhelds will be used to buy games off Steam

Yeah but that's just ONE of the things they can do they'll be able to do a hell of a lot more too, including running steam games better than the steam deck. What are we talking about

 

[daze23]

Yeah but that's just ONE of the things they can do they'll be able to do a hell of a lot more too, including running steam games better than the steam deck. What are we talking about

Valve would probably prefer other companies make the hardware. their ultimate goal is to get more people buying games off Steam

 

[CarltonJunior]

Valve would probably prefer other companies make the hardware. their ultimate goal is to get more people buying games off Steam

Thats not the conversation tho, everybody knows that steam is sitting pretty, the conversation is whether or not they should do this because the actual steam deck itself may become obsolete if they let steam deck competitors catch up

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

Vanilla Steam os we off that… windows /bazzite is the new wave.

Steam deck won’t get a yearly release but those who want more power can get a windows handheld and run steam os on it

 

[Tunez]

do they do chip design?

No

 

[daze23]

Thats not the conversation tho, everybody knows that steam is sitting pretty, the conversation is whether or not they should do this because the actual steam deck itself may become obsolete if they let steam deck competitors catch up

these handheld PC's existed before the Steam Deck. Valve just showed everyone how it's done. and I think they'll continue to iterate the Steam Deck to kind of 'guide' the market. with Steam Machines they tried to let 3rd party build all the hardware, but it failed, because people really wanted Valve's cool prototype. I think they learned their lesson, and see that the handheld PC market needs them to push it in the right directions. at least until the market is a little more robust

the point of Steam Machines, Steam Controller, Steam Link, and Steam Deck has always been to bring more people to the PC platform, and to Valve's store. sure, by some definition, these other handhelds are their "competition", but they're really only helping Valve's real goal