Steam Deck designer Pierre-Loup Griffais advised CNBC on the Tokyo Recreation Present that the transportable PC received’t get a significant {hardware} refresh for not less than “a pair years.”

Distributor Valve thinks the Deck is in a “fairly candy spot,” Griffais mentioned, “by way of with the ability to play all of the experiences from this new technology [of games], and, you understand, up to now, the brand new releases are […] nice experiences on Steam Deck.” Useful resource-heavy Starfield type of crushes its backbone, although.

To The Verge, Griffais clarified {that a} Steam Deck successor wouldn’t launch till not less than 2025, placing a Steam Deck 2 kind of on the identical timeline as one thing just like the elusive Swap 2, which probably wouldn’t launch till 2024 or later. Kotaku reached out to Valve for remark.

“Altering the efficiency stage shouldn’t be one thing we’re taking frivolously, and we solely wish to accomplish that when there’s a important sufficient improve available,” Griffais mentioned to The Verge.

And, anyway, Griffais feels that the present Deck—a formidable machine by all counts—is holding itself gracefully amid competitors just like the Swap or Android-based Ayn Odin.

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Gross sales have been regular even after covid’s (relative) decline, and Valve is routinely releasing software program updates. “We’ve completed quite a lot of work on Steam[‘s operating system, which powers the Deck],” Griffais mentioned to CNBC. He’s additionally completely happy to acknowledge that “the ability and energy of PC is that there’s a variety of choices. […] I feel it’s nice that every one these different producers are additionally taking part [in creating portable consoles] […]. In the event that they succeed, we succeed.”

Whereas the specifics of a Steam Deck 2 are unknown even to its producer, Griffais kind of confirms that fashionable consideration on VR, like that which Mark Zuckerberg is beaming into the Meta Quest 2, most likely received’t ever pair with Steam Deck.

“We don’t actually have a VR story to [the Deck],” Griffais mentioned to CNBC, “however [VR is] undoubtedly one thing we wish to discover extra sooner or later.”