Steam Deck 2.0 could focus on battery life over better performance
Enlarge / No word on whether the next Steam Deck will help protect the wood on your deck. (credit: Sam Machkovech)
Now that Valve's Steam Deck has been technically available for about 10 months (and widely available for about two months), customers are increasingly wondering what Valve might have in store for an inevitable "version 2.0" of the handy PC gaming portable. While some players might be looking for a more powerful "Steam Deck Pro," hardware designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais say that battery life and screen quality are the more likely "pain points" they'd like to address in a new version.
That news comes from a wide-ranging interview with The Verge, where the pair of Valve designers hinted that keeping the same basic spec target for future hardware could be valuable. Right now, the fact that all the Steam Decks can play the same games and that we have one target for users to understand what kind of performance level to expect when you're playing and for developers to understand what to target-there's a lot of value in having that one spec," Griffais told The Verge.
"I think we'll opt to keep the one performance level for a little bit longer and only look at changing the performance level when there is a significant gain to be had," Griffais added.