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New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought (www.pcguide.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Source is KeplerL2, who is generally considered a reliable source for insider hardware info, particularly on AMD GPU hardware and AMD SoC for consoles.

Previously I would have personally estimated Steam Deck 2 to release mid 2026-early 2027, but the recent info about an upcoming Steam Machine made me think that maybe I should push back that estimate.

Of course even if we assume this is reliable insider info, a lot can change in couple years, so things can definitely change.

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[–] tiberius@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I can wait for 2028, but how about giving us a Steam Controller 2? Take the screen out of a steam deck and call it a day.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Take the screen out of a steam deck and call it a day.

Almost. Also put the dual stage triggers back in.

[–] Anegro_Montoya@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. I have a Steam controller that I'd use if it had 2 thumbsticks. The touchpad is okay for controlling the cursor but otherwise it's annoying.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I love the thumbpads

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's coming, expected to launch alongside the upcoming Steam Machine.

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This one I'm excited for. A Steam Machine would be great, and my biggest gripe with controller play on my desktop is the missing trackpads mean Steam Input didn't work. There are games that I choose to stream to/play on my Deck over using my 1440p 32" screen on my gaming rig because I don't have Steam Input on my desktop.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

You know there's a funny workaround here - stream the game from your PC to the Deck over Steam Remote Play while keeping that PC monitor on, and then use the Steam Deck only as a controller while looking at the big screen. It will add a bit of latency to controls, but it's surprisingly not bad

[–] BunScientist@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you mean? steam input works as long as you have steam, your controller doesn't matter unless it's a really really rare unsupported controller

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

I mean using the Track Pads, often for things like radial menus. A lot of PC games need more inputs than exist on a controller.

[–] arudesalad@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

This would be great, I recently used a regular xbox controller for the first time since I got my deck and it felt so small and all the buttons were in the wrong place and it made me mad.