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Gabe Newell talked about the future of Steam Deck.
Valve's Steam Deck has recently been released, but the company is already thinking about what the future of the device will look like. The company's president Gabe Newell shared with Eurogamer that the future versions of the Deck might come from VR technology.
"A lot of the technology that we might be using and future versions of that comes, you know, from technology that we have to develop for VR," he said. "And then if you flip it around and you look at that as like a highly performant mobile PC gaming device, you sort of say, well, why can't I have that in a tetherless integrated VR solution?"
Whether it means we can expect a standalone VR headset from Valve or not is up for discussion, although it's not the first time Newell talks about VR: speaking to Edge Magazine, he said that Steam Deck represents "battery-capable, high-performance horsepower that eventually you could use in VR applications as well."
Other than VR, Newell said it is possible Valve will look into mobile solutions.
"Longer term, we may end up finding that there are interesting mobile-specific opportunities. If you start putting cameras on these things you may find that there are classes of game experiences that are really dependent on those."
Overall, Valve is not going to stop developing Steam Deck and is already looking into different areas to improve it.
While you're waiting for the Deck's next change, check out Newell himself delivering the first handhelds.
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