Valve has no news about Steam Deck 2

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

But Valve won’t accidental the archetypal connection astir its adjacent gaming handheld, the Steam Deck 2.

“Steam Deck is not what we’re present to speech astir today,” Valve bundle technologist Pierre-Loup Griffais told america astatine the precise opening of our briefing. “It’s benignant of related but not really,” helium said, earlier launching into a treatment of however the Steam Deck’s learnings underpinned each caller merchandise that it’s announcing today.

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

While Valve has repeatedly confirmed that the Steam Deck volition person sequels, the company’s besides repeatedly been wide 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 show and ratio earlier it takes the plunge. “We truly bash privation to hold for a generational leap successful compute without sacrificing artillery beingness earlier we ship the existent 2nd generation of Steam Deck,” is however Valve’s Lawrence Yang concisely reiterated it to Reviews.org successful 2024.

The question present is: volition Valve find that leap successful show and ratio from x86? Because portion Valve initially thought its standalone VR headset mightiness tally connected the existing Steam Deck’s chip, the institution conscionable announced the Steam Frame with an Arm processor alternatively — utilizing emulation to fto it play immoderate Windows games locally connected the headset. Griffais tells maine helium thinks Arm has “a batch of potential” successful aboriginal handhelds someday.

Valve tells america the Frame has a little show people than the 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 the latest was adjacent interested successful discussing a imaginable SteamOS handheld with Valve.

It’s besides imaginable Valve already recovered its adjacent Steam Deck spot successful AMD’s aboriginal roadmaps — similar it did with the archetypal Steam Deck — and is simply waiting for it to arrive.

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