Valve doesn’t have any news about Steam Deck 2

But Valve won’t say the first word about its next portable gaming console, Steam Deck 2.

“Steam Deck is not what we’re here to talk about today,” Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffes told us at the start of our briefing. “It’s kind of relatable but not real,” he said, before launching into a discussion about how what Steam Deck has learned supports each new product it announces today.

The company won’t tell us if the new drift-resistant TMR joysticks it’s offering in the Steam Controller and Steam Frame stick will make it into a future Steam Deck as well. “We’re always thinking about the Steam Deck and ways to improve it in the future,” says Valve hardware engineer Steve Cardinale when I ask. (He also says that Valve currently has no plans to offer TMR joysticks as a module for the original vehicle.)

While the valve has He stressed repeatedly That Steam Deck will have a sequel, the company has also repeatedly made it clear that it is in no hurry to bring it to the market. Since 2022, Greaves He constantly has it He told us Valve wants to see a big jump in performance and efficiency before taking the plunge. “We really want to wait for a generational leap in computing without sacrificing battery life before we ship a true second-generation Steam Deck,” Valve’s Lawrence Yang put it succinctly. Repeat this to Reviews.org In 2024.

The question now is: Will Valve find this leap in performance and efficiency from x86? Because while Valve thought at first The company has just announced that its standalone virtual reality headset may run on the existing Steam Deck chip Steam frame Using an Arm processor instead – using emulation to allow it to run some Windows games locally on the headset. Griffais told me he thinks Arm has “a lot of potential” in future mobile devices one day.

It’s also possible that Valve has already found the next Steam Deck chip in AMD’s future roadmaps – as it did with the original Steam Deck – and is simply waiting for it to arrive.