Valve Says It's 'Hard at Work' on Steam Deck 2, but There's Still No Release Window

Valve has said it’s “hard astatine work” connected Steam Deck 2, portion continuing to enactment connected getting the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame retired the door.

In November past year, erstwhile Valve announced its trio of caller hardware devices, IGN asked Valve programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais astir Steam Deck 2, and helium told america that Valve was “making sure… that it's a worthwhile capable show upgrade to marque consciousness arsenic a standalone product.”

Now, 5 months later, with Valve confirming a merchandise day and terms for Steam Controller, we thought we’d inquire Griffais for an update connected Steam Deck 2.

“We're hard astatine enactment connected it,” helium replied. “And evidently each measurement of the way, if you look astatine our hardware projects implicit the years, you tin gully a consecutive enactment from the archetypal Steam Controller and Steam Machine to Steam Deck, to everything that we're announcing and shipping this year. And we expect Steam Deck 2 volition beryllium a batch of the aforesaid wherever a batch of what we're doing present volition beryllium learnings that physique up to it.”

So, nary steadfast merchandise model connected Steam Deck 2, but it sounds similar Valve has each volition of releasing the instrumentality astatine immoderate point. And, based connected Griffais’ comments some present and past year, show volition beryllium the cardinal question Valve indispensable reply earlier Steam Deck 2 becomes a reality.

“We're not funny successful getting to a constituent wherever it's 20 oregon 30 oregon adjacent 50% much show astatine the aforesaid artillery life,” Griffais told america past year. “We privation thing a small spot much demarcated than that. So we've been moving backmost from silicon advancements and architectural improvements, and I deliberation we person a beauteous bully thought of what the adjacent mentation of Steam Deck is going to be, but close present there's nary offerings successful that landscape, successful the SoC [System connected a Chip] landscape, that we deliberation would genuinely beryllium a next-gen show Steam Deck.”

The Steam Deck handheld launched successful February 2022, with the OLED exemplary coming retired November 2023. Steam Deck is implicit 4 years aged now, and portion determination is simply a agelong database of Steam Deck-verified games to play, it does conflict to tally immoderate modern PC games well. Indeed, successful September 2023, Pierre-Loup Griffais told The Verge that the adjacent Steam Deck was astatine slightest a mates of years away, which had immoderate hoping for the adjacent mentation successful clip for the holidays past year.

Hopefully Steam Deck 2 volition person improved artillery life, erstwhile it yet comes out. As IGN's Steam Deck reappraisal points out, artillery beingness is simply a "massive problem" portion moving Windows. Even erstwhile moving the autochthonal SteamOS connected the device, we noted "battery beingness inactive wasn't great,” citing the information that God of War connected default settings chewed done a afloat charged Steam Deck successful conscionable 90 minutes.

In the meantime, we’ve got plentifulness much connected Steam Controller, including our reappraisal and our Valve interrogation successful full.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].