So the Steam Deck has been out for a while and Valve has been thinking about the next tiny gaming PC and how it’ll evolve — and here are some early details from Edge Magazine to go along with that. The Steam Deck 2 will be more powerful as it should, but Valve co-founder Gabe Newell told The Edge that it will also have features to push its portability and something a desktop PC can’t — and it looks like VR too.
He said: “The first stage is for you to play the wonderful games that are out there right now. During the second round of revisions, we’ll be focusing more on: “What are the advantages of mobile gaming over conventional desktop pc gaming?”
Steam Deck “represents battery-capable, strong horsepower that someday you may employ in VR systems too,” he said. ” A portable system can be built using the PC as the basis. While we aren’t quite there, this is a good first step.”
The most costly Steam Deck model with 512GB of storage and an anti-glare display is very famous among gamers who pre-ordered the unit.
That’s an example of being surprised by what our clients are saying,” Newell explained. This is essentially a request for a more expensive model with more horsepower or a few other features. Getting something out into the market and shipping it is what we enjoy most about our work. Because we’ve learned a lot from it, it lets us think about Deck 2 in a different way.
Steam Deck Development Indicates Valve’s Seriousness
For the second generation of Steam Deck, it seems Valve has considered that gamers will pay more than they thought for its portability. As for virtual reality, Newell seems to be hinting that the Steam Deck 2 will do something new with its portability.
But that’s thrilling, although it doesn’t make good sense for Valve to discuss the Steam Deck 2 when the original model hasn’t shipped yet. But it shows that the company is sending a message that it intends to continue working on the Steam Deck in the future and they are not going to stop with just a single release. We’re optimistic about this release based on what we’ve seen so far in terms of sneak peeks and hands-on time with the device.
Not only is it surprising Valve is talking about the Deck 2, but the fact the 512GB model is the most popular is a bit of a tease. The 256GB model seems like a good compromise in terms of pricing (plus you get a full SSD instead of the eMMC drive in the base model). For some less demanding games, the SD card was a suitable alternative for more storage, at least from what we’ve seen in early build tests circulating the internet.
New buyers are more likely to be gamers who are willing to spend extra for quality as seen in the success of the top-end model. If the handheld is as successful as Valve thinks, we’d expect the most popular model to be a lower-tier model, not the flagship one, when it becomes more widely available.
