It appears that Valve is in no rush to release a more powerful version of its Steam Deck just yet. Currently, the Steam Deck can run over 8,000 games spanning indie titles to more hardware-intense games such as Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077.

In a recent interview, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais told Rock, Paper, Shotgun that he believes that the Steam "Deck has the potential to be a solid target throughout the generation." Griffais then explains how Valve plans to improve Steam Decks specs "but the work involved is trickier than the typical Deck UX tweaks developers have had to do for games that already perform well."

In the same interview, Valve designer Lawrence Yang echoes Griffai's thoughts on the Steam Deck's longevity by explaining how he feels that "a true next-gen Deck with a significant bump in horsepower wouldn't be for a few years." This makes sense because the Steam Deck has only been out for a little over a year.

Throughout its first year of being out in the wild, it's received several updates improving its quality of life. The most recent one enables ray tracing on Doom Eternal and fixes graphical corruption problems in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and GPU crashes in unspecified upcoming games.

The Steam Deck is one of the most innovative portable gaming consoles, as it puts the power of a PC, right in the palm of your hands. The library of games for the console also keeps increasing with Cyberpunk 2077 as the latest addition to the humongous list of Steam Deck verified games. Steam Deck has recently completed its one year anniversary.

The Deck recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. On this occasion, Valve Designer Lawrence Yang and Valve Engineer Pierre Loup Griffais gave an interview to Rock Paper Shotgun. The interview shed a lot of insights on how the year has treated Steam Deck, and how the community has responded to this portable gaming device.

Steam Deck 2 isn't going to arrive any time soon

Griffais has stated that the Steam Deck will likely be a "solid target" for the whole of this generation. He added that the work required for this will not be as easy as tweaks to the Deck UX, but more towards games in order for them to perform well. Yang chimed in stating that a "true next-gen Deck" with upgraded specs will not arrive for the next "few years".

42% Steam Deck owners prefer the device over other gaming consoles

The report also featured an intriguing stat about 42% of Steam Deck owners preferring the Valve console to play their favorite Steam games on the Deck compared to any other device. Yang and Griffais are also excited to see the variety of use cases they have seen amongst the owners and are happy that they love the device as much as the team did through its prototype stages.

Source - Internet