"But Valve won't say the first word about its next gaming handheld, the Steam Deck 2. "Steam Deck is not what we're here to talk about today," Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais told us at the very beginning of our briefing. "It's sort of related but not really," he said, before launching into a discussion of how the Steam Deck's learnings underpinned every new product that it's announcing today."
"While Valve has repeatedly confirmed that the Steam Deck will have sequels, the company's also repeatedly been clear that it's in no hurry to bring them to market. Since 2022, Griffais has consistently told us that Valve wants to see a significant leap in performance and efficiency before it takes the plunge. "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,""
Valve unveiled a major hardware push that includes a living-room Steam Machine, the Steam Frame headset, and a sequel to the Steam Controller. The company declined to reveal details about the Steam Deck 2 and emphasized that Steam Deck learnings informed the new products. Drift-resistant TMR joysticks appear in the Steam Controller and Steam Frame wands, with no current plan to offer them as a drop-in module for the original Deck. Valve plans to wait for a generational leap in compute performance and energy efficiency before shipping a true second-generation Steam Deck to preserve battery life. The Steam Frame uses an Arm processor and relies on emulation for some Windows games, raising questions about x86's future role.
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