Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’

[John Elden Ring]

Valve has been clear it wants to build a Steam Deck 2 — and equally clear that a faster handheld wouldn't arrive soon. Now, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais tells The Verge and CNBC that it could be late 2025 or beyond before it raises that bar — because it wants to see a leap in performance without a significant hit to battery life.

Here's the whole quote:

It's important to us that the Deck offers a fixed performance target for developers, and that the message to customers is simple, where every Deck can play the same games. As such, changing the performance level is not something we are taking lightly, and we only want to do so when there is a significant enough increase to be had. We also don't want more performance to come at a significant cost to power efficiency and battery life. I don't anticipate such a leap to be possible in the next couple of years, but we're still closely monitoring innovations in architectures and fabrication processes to see where things are going there.

More at The Verge

 

[JAHGamer]

lol its only 1 year old, people need to slow down

 

[Systemshock2023]

Great approach by Valve. Deck can run 99% of the games on the market at decent settings. And if you expect a handheld to be running AAA games all the way through the end of the generation... I don't know what to tell you. Let them keep the deck until 2027 at the very least.

 

[flaccidsnake]

These folks get it.

 

[Yurinka]

Yes, devs prefer longer console/portable lifecycles and less SKUs. And players who aren't rich too.

 

[KnittedKnight]

It's a console, not an upgradeable PC. And even PCs have limits.

 

[Frozone]

Runs most games without problems while still giving the user control over the graphics settings. Hopefully when AMD releases frame-generation, a lot of games on the Deck will run faster. No need for faster hardware for now.

 

[Old Gamer]

It's currently fine the way it is right now. Still satisfied with mine, recently upgraded the SSD even.
Even community developed alternate distros for it with different gaming ui have already shown up.