Throughout an intensive interview with publication Rock Paper Shotgun, Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang dropped a possible bomb on players who could also be eagerly awaiting a sequel to the transportable.

As reported by PC Gamer, Yang acknowledged that whereas he was enthusiastic about what enhancements may very well be made to the transportable system, “a real next-gen Deck with a big bump in horsepower wouldn’t be for just a few years.” And whereas which may be disappointing information for some who had been hoping for a real sequel, there’s good motive for Valve to not spend money on a Steam Deck 2 simply but.

In keeping with Yang’s fellow Steam Deck designer, Pierre-Loup Griffais, “if high-end current-gen titles are capable of scale to Deck and be an ideal expertise, it additionally allows smoother efficiency on a greater diversity of PCs, and enhance the expertise for the entire playerbase.”

Contemplating that Valve’s Steam Deck is barely celebrating its first yr now, we’ll more than likely not see a brand new one for no less than just a few years.

Valve just lately launched a brand new replace, one which makes it simpler to switch PC video games between a PC and the Steam Deck. The replace, which is at the moment solely out there to these within the Steam Deck Beta and Preview channels, permits you to carry out a neighborhood knowledge switch between units and is a sooner various to utilizing the web for stated switch. 

You may also use this characteristic to switch video games between two PCs, however if you wish to copy recreation information to a PC not registered to your Steam account you’ll want to vary the Native Community Recreation Transfers settings from Self Solely (the default) to Mates Solely or Everybody. 

The Steam Deck 2 shouldn’t come out anytime quickly

This can be a spicy sizzling take however I hope that Valve doesn’t launch a brand new Steam Deck for a very long time. First, the transportable system is sort of younger and clearly has loads of steam (pun meant) left judging by the in depth official and group help that’s nonetheless ongoing. 

There are tons of equipment, packages, purposes, and way more out there to buy and set up now, and much more coming within the close to and much future. Saying and releasing a Steam Deck 2 could be a slap within the face to all that effort to this point, since it will all must basically be reset.

Then there’s the financial side to this as nicely. The Steam Deck is an extremely highly effective and versatile transportable machine, however it’s additionally a really costly one. And asking players to drop help of an costly product they invested in, simply to buy one other costly product after which rebuy equipment and reinstall all of the packages and purposes as nicely.

And whereas Valve has made it no secret that there’ll finally be a follow-up, I’m glad that Valve understands how releasing one so quickly to the launch of its first would completely destroy any momentum the Steam Deck has picked up to this point, and as an alternative has opted to concentrate on supporting such a promising system as an alternative.