Valve gave us the strongest wording yet that a Steam Deck 2 is actually real, although it's still clearly going to be some time away before there's enough of an upgrade.

The exact quote:

It is important to us, and we’ve tried to be really clear, we are not doing the yearly cadence. We’re not going to do a bump every year. There’s no reason to do that. And, honestly, from our perspective, that’s kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that’s only incrementally better. So we really do want to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before we ship the real second generation of Steam Deck. But it is something that we’re excited about and we’re working on.

  • weker01@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    15 days ago

    This reminds me of an old thread on a random forum. Just when Sims 2 was released they were speculating what Sims 3 would look like.

    Someone suggested that the next game will surely be in the source engine!

    While your point is more realistic than that I still don’t think valve could pull this off in reasonable time. Translation for games is extremely hard to do right. I think if at all there will be another generation of decks before we see something like this.

    • asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml
      16·
      15 days ago

      Also honestly, proton being basically a public beta on the decks launch was one thing, But that’s going to create even more issues on launch for the newer device unless they have it practically perfect before it comes out.