Is Valve already planning the Steam Deck 2?
Greg Coomer, a designer for Valve, has confirmed in an interview with Axios that some exciting new games are currently being created. While no specific franchise names were dropped, Coomer stated that “There are multiple games in development right now at Valve, and I think they're pretty exciting ones.”
Valve is best known as the company behind the Steam game distribution platform, but it also has an impressive list of titles to its name, such as Portal, Half-Life and Team Fortress. Valve announcing that it's developing games again is pretty big news in itself, given how infrequently the developer launches new titles, though Coomer has at least confirmed that none of the titles under development will be Portal 3.
The Steam Deck also didn't have its own launch title, but given the picture Coomer paints for its development, we can hardly blame Valve for not wanting to add too much to its plate. The company promised to test every game on Steam to check its compatibility with the Steam Deck handheld, but of the 50,000 titles currently listed on the service, only 1,000 games have actually been ticked off.
“It’s a daunting task,” Coomer stated in regards to the process, mentioning that the company is currently hand-checking games for things like text readability and that Valve may need to «invent some other way of evaluating games.”
Sadly, some third-party games like Fortnite and Destiny 2 are also still excluded from the Steam Deck system, but in Fortnite's case that's down to developer Epic Games to arrange. As yet, Epic’s Tim Sweeney has said Epic has no current plans to allow its games to run on the handheld, citing concerns around running anti-cheat software on the Linux-based system.
»Fortnite is a great game,” Coomer says.
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