Steam Deck har været en massiv succes for Valve, og det samme har den lidt halve efterfølger, Steam Deck OLED. Men hvad med en sand "2'er"? Valve har tidligere slået fast at de er skeptiske overfor den forventning om at tech-virksomheder absolut skal udgive årlige opdateringer af deres hardware, og det gælder stadig.
I et interview med Reviews.org siger designet Lawrence Yang, at de fortsat ikke ønsker at lancere noget som helst Steam Deck-relateret, med mindre der er tale om et "generational leap":
"It is important to us, and we've tried to be really clear, we are not doing the yearly cadence. We're not going to do a bump every year. There's no reason to do that. And, honestly, from our perspective, that's kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that's only incrementally better. So we really do want to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before we ship the real second generation of Steam Deck. But it is something that we're excited about and we're working on."
Man skal derfor ikke forvente at se Steam Deck 2 lige foreløbig. Spørgsmålet er bare hvor længe der skal gå?