Valve’s new Steam hardware announcements—a revived Steam Machine desktop-slash-console , a standalone Steam Frame VR headset, and a refreshed Steam Controller—are all anyone’s talking about right now. But none of them would have such high profiles without the Steam Deck, Valve’s smash hit handheld. So then, where’s the Steam Deck 2? Still coming but not any time soon, says a Valve representative.

That’s the same thing we’ve been hearing from the company for over two years , even as we approach four years since the Steam Deck landed, and even as would-be competitors come out with newer and more powerful hardware. Despite the original AMD Zen 2-based Deck getting a little long in the tooth and struggling to play the newest, most demanding PC games, Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Gr

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