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Valve rejects “yearly cadence” of Steam Deck hardware releases to be “fair” to gamers

Valve rejects “yearly cadence” of Steam Deck hardware releases to be “fair” to gamers

Nice console games October 22, 2024 blog, Hardware, Steam Deck, Valve

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Valve
will
not
habitually
release
hardware
in
annual
or
cyclical
phases
because
“that’s
[…]
not
really
fair
to
customers”.

In
an
interview
with

Reviews.org
(via

Eurogamer),
Valve
designers
Lawrence
Yang
and
Yazan
Aldehayyat
confirmed
the
company
would
not
update
its
Steam
Deck
systems
with
any
kind
of
“yearly
cadence,”
but
instead
wait
for
“a
generation
leap”
in
performance
instead.

“It
is
important
to
us,
and
we’ve
tried
to
be
really
clear,
we
are
not
doing
the
yearly
cadence,”
Yang
said.

“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,”
Yang
concluded.
“But
it
is
something
that
we’re
excited
about,
and
we’re
working
on.”

The
statement
reaffirm
Valve’s
commitment
to
the
Steam
Deck
hardware,
stating
that
it’s
aiming
for
the
true
successor
to
be
“a
generational
increase.”

An

OLED
edition
of
the
handheld
PC
launched
this
time
last
year.