Booklet Confirms Valve Will Make a Steam Deck 2
Valve published a Steam Deck booklet this week, and with it confirmed that we're definitely going to see multiple iterations of the handheld gaming PC released.
The 52-page PDF booklet(Opens in a new window) was created as a way of introducing new customers "to Valve, Steam, and Steam Deck." The timing of the release is also key, as Steam Deck is about to launch in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong where Steam/Valve may not be so well known.
With that in mind, Valve took the time to have it translated into Japanese(Opens in a new window), Korean(Opens in a new window), and Traditional Chinese(Opens in a new window), as well as offering it in English(Opens in a new window).
For those of us who already know all about the company, the Steam gaming platform, and the handheld, there's some reassuring news included in the booklet. Page 50 is titled "The Future: more Steam Deck, more SteamOS." Valve uses the page to confirm that the Steam Deck hardware will be followed with "improvements and iterations to hardware and software, bringing new versions of Steam Deck to market."
I think it was always Valve's intent to keep iterating the Steam Deck hardware, assuming that it proved popular. Now that it has, it's nice to see this confirmed in writing. We are definitely going to get a Steam Deck 2, and more than likely a 3, 4, and 5, too. Valve also confirms on the same page of the booklet that "these future products will continue to provide access to the same Steam game catalog that gamers already know and love."
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