According to foreign media The Verge, Valve has made it clear that it wants to build Steam Deck 2, but it has also made it clear that it will not be launched soon.
Steam Deck engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais told The Verge that he hopes to see a jump in performance without a major impact on battery life, which Steam Deck 2 may not reach until late 2025 or longer. “I don’t expect such a leap in the next few years,” the engineer noted via email.
Attachment of the original email:
What's important to us is that Deck provides developers with fixed performance targets, and the message to customers is simple - every Deck can play the same games. Therefore, we do not change performance levels lightly and will only do so when there is a significant enough improvement in performance levels.
We also don't want to get more performance at the expense of power efficiency and battery life. I don't expect such a leap in the next few years, but we're still keeping a close eye on innovations in architecture and manufacturing processes to see how things progress.
Although the current process is not enough to manufacture Steam Deck 2, Valve may update the Steam Deck and release a smaller, lighter, and more power-efficient version without changing performance. Nintendo is setting the precedent – the Switch has already received two updates, one to improve the battery and one to improve the screen, neither of which touched on performance.
