As a loyal Steam Deck player, I’d be heartbroken if the news came out that Valve never makes a second generation. But at the AMD and Lenovo event named “The Future of Gaming Handhelds,” I got a chance to talk to Valve’s SteamOS designer Pierre-Loup Griffais (on the left) about it and the answers

If your main use for the Steam Deck is as a complete PC replacement to play the very latest games, you should probably wait for the Steam Deck 2. We’ve reached a point now in early 2025 where the Steam Deck really isn’t powerful enough to run many new releases.

A massive 2025 release on Steam has been verified on Steam Deck by Valve a month before its release next month.

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