{"id":1693198,"date":"2026-09-15T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o74NqkPHbVfgwMtugGuFnb"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:50:29","slug":"the-steam-deck-2-has-not-really-been-impacted-by-the-memory-supply-crisis-with-valve-still-focused-on-a-very-delineated-performance-improvement-for-its-next-handheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-steam-deck-2-has-not-really-been-impacted-by-the-memory-supply-crisis-with-valve-still-focused-on-a-very-delineated-performance-improvement-for-its-next-handheld\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steam Deck 2 has ‘not really’ been impacted by the memory supply crisis, with Valve still focused on a ‘very delineated performance improvement’ for its next handheld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the release of the new Steam Controller<\/a>, the Steam Machine<\/a>, and now the Steam Frame<\/a> VR headset, this year has been chock-full of Valve hardware releases. So, what could possibly be next\u2014the Steam Deck 2? To some extent, sure; Valve has been “hard at work<\/a>” on its next handheld gaming PC pretty much since the original Steam Deck launched back in 2022<\/a>. What’s surprising, though, is that Valve claims the RAMpocalypse<\/a> hasn’t hugely affected its plans.<\/p>\n

Despite the clear impact on the pricing of both the Steam Machine<\/a> and the Steam Frame<\/a>, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais told IGN<\/a> that the memory supply crisis has “not really” affected the company’s plans for the Steam Deck successor. He added, “We’ve talked before about how we want to make sure there’s a very delineated performance improvement for something like a future Steam Deck, and I think we’re still looking at it in the same way.”<\/p>\n

“It’s just a matter of looking at the current conditions and seeing how and when we can deliver something like that,” Griffais says, “But from what we’re working on, as far as the user experience goes and what the product that we’re trying to build goes, it’s very similar goals.”<\/p>\n

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