As the Steam Controller breaks cover, Valve say they're hard at work on the Steam Deck 2 and keeping current Decks in stock

"We're trying to marque definite to support options open"

In lawsuit you missed it, Valve confirmed the Steam Controller's terms and merchandise day yesterday. Naturally, arsenic portion of that uncover they've faced a clump of questions astir the different hardware they've got successful the works, including the Steam Machine and the much distant adjacent Steam Deck. As acold arsenic the latter's concerned, they inactive aren't saying much, but person astatine slightest confirmed they've engaged moving connected some it and making definite existent Decks don't support going retired of banal amid the ongoing RAM crisis.

First, the presumption of Steam Deck 2: The Deckpire Steams Back. "We're hard astatine enactment connected it," Valve programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais told the Ian Games Network. "And evidently each measurement of the way, if you look astatine our hardware projects implicit the years, you tin gully a consecutive enactment from the archetypal Steam Controller and Steam Machine to Steam Deck, to everything that we're announcing and shipping this year. And we expect Steam Deck 2 volition beryllium a batch of the aforesaid wherever a batch of what we're doing present volition beryllium learnings that physique up to it."

This follows connected from Griffais telling the aforesaid tract precocious past twelvemonth that Valve are keen to marque definite the adjacent Decks is simply a "worthwhile capable show upgrade" connected its predecessor, with the accusation being that's wherefore they've not rushed into announcing a merchandise model for it yet. With plentifulness of tech similar the Controller and the Machine to propulsion this twelvemonth and RAMnarök complicating that, it besides makes each the consciousness successful the satellite for the institution to instrumentality their time.

As for the representation shortage making the Decks presently connected merchantability harder to get ahold of, Griffais said that's "something that [Valve are] moving precise hard on". "We're trying to marque definite to support options unfastened and to enactment with arsenic galore antithetic manufacturers arsenic we can," helium said of the company's wider efforts to navigate RAMnarök. "I deliberation successful general, that's thing that we're doing passim our hardware plan and accumulation signifier wherever we're ever cognizant of the information that having a azygous root for a fixed portion would enactment america downstream of imaginable shortages, and things similar that successful a mode that affects the continuity of the proviso and the terms for extremity users."

"That being said," helium added, "the conditions astir representation are beauteous planetary close now, truthful there's lone truthful overmuch that we tin do. But for example, determination was a akin information during the COVID times wherever there's a microcontroller shortage and radical couldn't truly physique thing that had tiny chips...because we had truthful galore antithetic options unfastened successful presumption of putting antithetic types of microcontrollers successful there, we were capable to navigate that and support immoderate proviso successful a clime wherever possibly immoderate different players were not capable to bash that."

So, there's your speedy 'Valve person released a thing' Deck update. If you're keen to larn much astir what the Steam Controller's similar up of its accomplishment connected May 4th, cheque retired James' Steam Controller review.