The Steam Deck is not going to get yearly iterations a la the iPhone, in response to certainly one of its designers, although a Steam Deck 2 will possible occur in some unspecified time in the future.
In an interview with Reviews.org (noticed by The Verge) Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang stated, “We’re not going to do a bump yearly. There’s no purpose to do this.” He elaborated that he felt it was unfair to prospects to supply solely incremental enhancements every year. He stated, “…we actually do need to look ahead to a generational leap in compute with out sacrificing battery life earlier than we ship the true second era of Steam Deck.”
This reply matches prior statements Valve has made. On a number of events final 12 months, Valve workers acknowledged {that a} extra highly effective Steam Deck might be years away–late 2025 on the earliest. Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais defined that a part of the Steam Deck model (no less than for now) is that each mannequin can play the identical video games; Valve would not need to change that till Steam Deck efficiency will get a major enhance with out dropping battery life. Later within the interview, Yang did notice that Valve is engaged on a Steam Deck successor.
The Steam Deck did get an improve final 12 months within the type of the Steam Deck OLED, which improves battery life and the show high quality. The Steam Deck’s recognition has resulted in a wide range of rivals, together with the Asus ROG Ally, which acquired SteamOS help in August.