Valve is bringing much more than an “incrementally better” update to the Steam Deck – here’s what we know about the handheld’s huge tech upgrade

Despite the aging AMD APU that powers the Steam Deck, it continues to be one of the best PC gaming handhelds on the market — setting the gold standard for its competitors like the Asus ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go to follow.

And it’s because of this that, in a recent interview with Reviews.org, Steam Deck designers Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehyyat confirmed that the planned successor to the device will boast some serious tech upgrades. According to Yang, Valve isn’t planning on “incrementally better” yearly releases. Instead, Valve is planning “to wait for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life before [it ships] the real second generation of Steam Deck.”