The continued manufacturing and success of the Steam Deck, which has not too long ago included Asia, already has Valve occupied with future iterations of its handheld machine. Speaking to Weekly Famitsu (and translated by VGC), designer Greg Coomer admitted that there’ll actually be one other era of Steam Decks on the horizon. 

“Unless one thing main adjustments…Development of the Steam Deck will proceed,” declared Coomer. 

As far as particular updates to the unique Steam Deck is anxious, developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has already stated growing the system’s battery life is already being labored on.  

“We’re continuously optimizing the working system to cut back battery consumption when enjoying video games that aren’t too demanding,” continued Griffais. “For instance, we’ve made it doable to play refresh charges at 40 Hz, and we’re working laborious to offer customers extra management over how lengthy their battery lasts.”

Coomer views the Steam Deck as an extension of the Steam platform, and as such, might be tailored into completely different types going ahead. “The theme, dimension and form will change, and it’d even change into a streaming machine.”

On PCs, Steam lets gamers stream video games through Remote Play through both the identical or completely different community connections, and even by way of their telephones. Currently, the Steam Deck solely lets gamers obtain video games onto their handheld and play them, just like different sport consoles. 

It is not an excessive amount of of a shock to listen to that the Steam Deck will go on. But listening to what might await future generations exhibits that Valve can be dedicated to its most profitable {hardware} for fairly a while. 

And if Valve does find yourself altering the scale or form of the Deck going ahead, different producers might have their very own takes on the unique model that might be extra to somebody’s liking.