Valve has appeared to confirm future iterations of its Steam Deck handheld are being planned.
As spotted byGamingOnLinux, a newSteam Deck Bookletrefers to follow-ups toValve‘s handheld, which was released earlier this year.
TheSteamDeck has proven extremely popular, with the company still fulfilling preorders at the time of writing.
“Steam Deck represents the first in a new category of Steam handheld gamingPCs,” the booklet reads. “In the future, Valve will follow up on this product with improvements and iterations to hardware and software, bringing new versions of Steam Deck to market.”
The booklet also refers to the Steam Deck as a “multi-generational product line,” and claims that Valve will “support Steam Deck and SteamOS” well into the foreseeable future.
If true, Steam Deck could buck the trend of Valve ending support for hardware support early on. The SteamController was released in 2015 alongside the SteamMachine. Steam Machines were largely unsupported following 2018 and Steam Controller was discontinued in 2019.
Valve has also said that the compatibility layer developed for Steam Deck will be adopted by other platforms such as ChromeOS.
The compatibility layer allows for games and applications that aren’t specifically designed for the Steam Deck to function.
VGC’s recent review ofMarvel’s Spider-Manon PC praised the Steam Deck performance as a“marvel”.
It was recently discovered that Valve has quietly downgraded theSSD included with some Steam Deck models.
While all Steam Deck 256GB and 512GB models initially came with a PCI express 3.0 x4 SSD, some now ship with a PCI express 3.0 x2 SSD instead.
