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I have a copy of every piece of Valve hardware except for a Steam Machine, and if there's anything that that's taught me, it's that Valve cannot make hardware v2 in anything. I snapped up the transparent case OLED Steam Deck immediately because I do not expect there to be a Steam Deck 2

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I’ve understood it as: Valve isn’t really in the hardware or console business. They release these fairly open devices in the hopes they get copied by others. Either to create a new market for Steam or to ensure an upcoming market has at least some Steam compatible devices.

Or they work with manufacturers like with HTC and Oculus for SteamVR, and the original Steam Machines which the only manufacturer I remember is Alienware.

Though they seem to be keeping SteamOS 3 close to their chest.

Valve knows how to count to 2, it just takes a long time. Now I would never expect a v3 of anything...

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