Valve is currently very busy on the hardware front. So far, the American company has announced its Steam Machine, as well as the Steam Frame VR headset and the Steam Controller.
For now, the Steam Deck has been temporarily shelved… But that won’t last forever. In an interview with IGN, software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais said that Valve already has an idea of the performance that the Steam Deck 2 will be capable of. For now, the group is content to think about its approach and is not yet inclined to start manufacturing the machine.
““Obviously the Steam Deck’s not our focus today, but the same things we’ve said in the past where we’re really interested to work on what’s next for Steam Deck… the thing we’re making sure of is that it’s a worthwhile enough performance upgrade to make sense as a standalone product.
We’re not interested in getting to a point where it’s 20 or 30 or even 50% more performance at the same battery life. We want something a little bit more demarcated than that.
So we’ve been working back from silicon advancements and architectural improvements, and I think we have a pretty good idea of what the next version of Steam Deck is going to be, but right now there’s no offerings in that landscape, in the SoC [System on a Chip] landscape, that we think would truly be a next-gen performance Steam Deck.”
So, if there’s a new Steam Deck, it won’t be anytime soon.
