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Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup \u2014 the Steam Controller<\/a>, the Steam Machine<\/a>, and today\u2019s Steam Frame<\/a> \u2014 are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn\u2019t saying so yet. The company is figuring out \u201chow and when we can deliver something like that,\u201d Valve designer Pierre-Loup Griffais now tells IGN<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe also don\u2019t want more performance to come at a significant cost to power efficiency and battery life,\u201d Griffais told me in 2023<\/a>, saying he wanted to see a \u201cleap\u201d instead \u2014 but suggesting that leap might not be physically possible for another couple of years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today, IGN\u2019s new question was: \u201cHas the current hardware shortage impacted the way Valve is thinking about actually putting a Steam Deck 2 into development?\u201d Griffais\u2019 immediate answer was \u201cNot really.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The real question is: has Valve yet identified the future chip that will appear in the Steam Deck 2? Because the company will work backwards from that chip\u2019s availability to create the hardware it lives within.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Intel\u2019s Panther Lake handheld chip in the MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus is the first I\u2019ve tried that comes close<\/a> to the kind of \u201cgenerational leap\u201d that Griffais has been talking about, but Panther Lake handhelds are incredibly expensive, and the Intel chip wasn\u2019t a silver bullet in my tests. But I bet Valve has seen the future of Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm chips, and maybe a future one will do the trick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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