Valve is “hard at work” on Steam Deck 2

Following the successful arrival of the Steam Deck back in 2022, Valve confirmed that the product would not be receiving annual refreshes. While we have since seen the Steam Deck OLED come to fruition, the hotly-anticipated Steam Deck 2 remains an unknown quantity. According to Valve however, the team are currently “hard at work” on the next-gen handheld.

Taking part in an interview with IGN, Valve programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais was asked for an updated statement on the current status of their in-development Steam Deck successor. According to Griffais:

“We're hard at work on it,” adding that “obviously every step of the way, if you look at our hardware projects over the years, you can draw a straight line from the original Steam Controller and Steam Machine to Steam Deck, to everything that we're announcing and shipping this year. And we expect Steam Deck 2 will be a lot of the same where a lot of what we're doing here will be learnings that build up to it.”

While relatively little to go off of, this update does give fans a direction to look towards when thinking about the Steam Deck 2, with the upcoming Steam Controller likely to be the biggest inspiration for its design principles.

Either way, when it does finally get announced, hopefully the Steam Deck 2 will manage to be a substantial upgrade over both the OG Steam Deck and even the OLED model. We will likely have to wait quite some time to find out.

KitGuru says: What do you think of the Steam Deck in 2026? Is it due a refresh? What do you want to see most from a Steam Deck successor? Let us know down below.

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