It will not catch anyone by surprise considering the great success that Valve’s Steam Deck is having, but the North American company confirmed in an official document that there will be new models in the future, calling its console/laptop a “multi-generational product line.”
Valve has posted on its website the Steam Deck Book, a fifty-three page PDF with information regarding the system. The latter two is where the future plans lie, saying “Steam Deck represents the first of a new category of Steam portable gaming PCs.”
“In the future,” he adds, “Valve will continue this product with improvements and iterations in the hardware and software, bringing new versions of the Steam Deck to market.”
“This is a multi-generational product line. Valve will continue to support the Steam Deck and SteamOS in the future. We will learn from the Steam community new uses for our hardware that we haven’t thought of yet, and build new versions that are more open and capable.” than the first version of the Steam Deck”.
That Valve was more than willing to go ahead with new Steam Deck models in the future is something that Gabe Newell himself had already hinted at more or less clearly in some interviews, but now we have an official and unambiguous statement of intent .
The document is also interesting because it also confirms that some of the Steam Deck developments will make the leap to other platforms. Thus, it is confirmed that the work on the interface is being reused in a new version of Big Picture for the PC client, and that the Steam Deck compatibility system is going to be implemented in other systems such as ChromeOS to “provide soon” compatibility. from Steam on ChromeBooks.
