Following the release of revamped Steam Deck OLED game console, Valve launched into a promotional campaign for the unit. Part of the campaign involved Valve executives talking to various outlets, including Bloomberg and IGN, about the new unit and the company's vision for portable gaming hardware. Execs at the company are happy with the new Steam Deck OLED. Apparently, they are so happy that they do not feel any need to launch a next generation model any time soon.
Lawrence Yang, product designer behind Valve's Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED, told Bloomberg that his team would work on Steam Deck 2, which would feature 'next generation' performance, but it would not be on sale for another two or three years. This indicates that Valve is not particularly concerned about the new entrants to the field, including Asus with its ROG Ally, despite the fact that Steam Deck relies on an older AMD platform featuring Zen 2 microarchitecture from 2019 and RDNA 2 graphics from 2020. In fact, Valve's Steam Deck OLED improves the original Steam Deck in almost all the ways possible, except for performance.
