Valve is Already Thinking About a Follow-up to The Steam Deck
At the moment, it's quite difficult to navigate the gaming news sphere without bumping into something related to Valve and its newly-released Steam Deck device. And for good reason, as well. With the announcement of a new Portal-based game called Aperture Desk Job, and demand for the transportable PC already exceeding the company's expectations, it's currently the talk of the town. It seems Gabe Newell and co already have their sights on the future, as a hardware follow-up may be on the horizon.
According to a recent report from Games Radar, which quotes an interview from the newest issue of Edge magazine, there's a possibility that Valve may already be planning a sequel to the Steam Deck, particularly as the current one, which dropped just yesterday, is already making waves. As pleased as the company must be with the way things are going at the moment, it seems as though Newell is already thinking about ways to make it better, suggesting that there is a definite future for these types of portable gaming devices, and that «this is a stepping stone.»
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However, it is still early days yet, but it's interesting to see that the CEO is keen to move forward with ideas about what could come next, or what other companies will do with the system. With the Steam Deck having three different models, Newell also seemed quite surprised that the most expensive version was one of the more popular ones. Whether this could lead to even more powerful iterations remains to be seen, but many, like Newell, would probably have expected most people to opt for the cheaper model instead, especially as this is a new piece of hardware.
With huge AAA releases like Elden Ring being
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