Valve is planning more devices like Steam Deck

Valve has more devices like the Steam Deck in the pipeline, the company reports in an interview. In any case, this is not a device that is aimed at streaming games from your own PC.

Valve designer Greg Coomer says to PCGamer that devices like the Steam Deck will “benefit Valve in the long run.” “We have hopes that this becomes a real category with multiple choices for consumers in it,” he says.

What Valve isn’t working on is a game streaming device. “For example, another manufacturer can make a version of a handheld focused on long battery life and streaming games from another PC. That would be an interesting product. We don’t have that planned right now, but maybe another manufacturer will. You you have lower costs, longer battery life and a very different architecture, technically speaking.”

The Steam Deck does support Remote Play, where players can stream their games running on PC to the handheld. Valve has been saying since the announcement that it intends to start a category of handheld gaming PCs. The company hopes that other manufacturers will also make such devices with SteamOS.

The Steam Deck is Valve’s first gaming handheld, equipped with a custom AMD APU with Zen 2 cores and an RDNA 2 GPU, 16GB Lpddr5 memory and a 7″ LCD with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels and an aspect ratio of 16 :10 The first copies of the Steam Deck will ship in December.