{"id":1616615,"date":"2026-06-25T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kSg7kqg7x9t7o8KczWkBz5"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:11:11","slug":"valve-says-steam-machine-wont-have-as-long-of-a-timeframe-as-steam-deck-and-new-models-are-just-a-matter-of-when-it-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valve-says-steam-machine-wont-have-as-long-of-a-timeframe-as-steam-deck-and-new-models-are-just-a-matter-of-when-it-makes-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve says Steam Machine won&#8217;t have &#8216;as long of a timeframe&#8217; as Steam Deck, and new models are &#8216;just a matter of when it makes sense&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Y8_e3SteAgE\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/steam-deck-review\/\">Steam Deck<\/a> is still trucking along just fine, even with four years of light between today and its 2022 release date. Nevertheless, there are more than a few people who&#8217;d quite like a Steam Deck 2 (though, uh, even they are probably prepared to wait for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/valves-steam-deck-price-jumps-by-nearly-50-percent-now-costs-usd949-for-a-1tb-model\/\">prices to become sane<\/a>). It&#8217;s been a while, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Well, perhaps some good news, then: in our chat with Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat, the pair said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/gaming-pcs\/steam-machine-review-2026\/\">Steam Machine<\/a> is a bit of a different beast. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re thinking about [the Steam Machine] with quite as long of a timeframe as something like the Steam Deck,&#8221; said Griffais.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-amazon-prime-day-pc-gaming-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>We&#8217;re keeping track of all the Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals here<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Steam Deck, by its nature, needs a little bit more of a fixed performance target for both developers and users to make sense of, &#8216;What can I play on this?&#8217; and not have that picture change once every year, every two years,&#8221; said Griffais. &#8220;Whereas the Steam Machine is very much in line with gaming PCs. There&#8217;s a big gradient of it: low-end CPUs, high-end CPUs and GPUs\u2014Steam Machine is somewhere on that gradient, right? So I think it&#8217;s a little bit less important to have a fixed performance target for, like, five years for a product like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it, right? Steam Machine 2 imminent, perhaps releasing concurrently with Steam Machine 3? Well, not quite. While Valve doesn&#8217;t think the Steam Machine needs to hew to Steam Deck timeframes, that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s diving right into a second iteration. <\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-ORV41O\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/ORV41O.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the same time,&#8221; continued Griffais, &#8220;we don&#8217;t really have immediate plans to be like, &#8216;In N years we&#8217;ll have a different performance target,&#8217; or something. We&#8217;re actually really curious to see how things pan out\u2026 there&#8217;s a lot of questions about the new systems generation, how that&#8217;s gonna roll out, how games are gonna adapt.&#8221; In other words, Valve is paying attention to how console manufacturers and other tech firms are handling the transition to a new generation in our current, RAM-crisis-afflicted world.<\/p>\n<p>Aldehayyat was quick to point out that the next iteration of Steam Machine hardware isn&#8217;t right around the corner, either, and that&#8217;s partially just a reflection of PC gamers&#8217; modern habits. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re seeing a natural slowdown of the upgrade cycle for gaming PCs,&#8221; said Aldehayyat, &#8220;so in some ways that probably means that the Steam Machine is a viable product for longer than you would have expected if it was launching 10 years ago.&#8221; That means the Machine as-is &#8220;probably has more longevity\u2026 it&#8217;s gonna basically be in line with typical PC upgrade cycles and what people typically do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just a matter of when it makes sense to [upgrade], at what price point, at what time, on what games are available. Like if a bunch of new games come out on Steam that require more performance, that would probably make us wanna upgrade the Steam Machine faster.&#8221; Alright, guess we&#8217;re waiting for Cyberpunk 2 then.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"9bbb3902-6784-424a-8851-553db7ff983f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/valve-says-steam-machine-wont-have-as-long-of-a-timeframe-as-steam-deck-and-new-models-are-just-a-matter-of-when-it-makes-sense.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"9bbb3902-6784-424a-8851-553db7ff983f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/steam-machines\/valve-says-steam-machine-wont-have-as-long-of-a-timeframe-as-steam-deck-and-new-models-are-just-a-matter-of-when-it-makes-sense\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, my Steam Deck is still trucking along just fine, even with four years of light between today and its 2022 release date. 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