Steam Deck designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais talked to The Verge about the success of the Steam Deck, future updates, Steam Deck 2, Steam Controller 2 and more.
Steam Deck 2
Right now the fact that all the Steam Decks can play the same games and that we have one target for users to understand what kind of performance level to expect when you’re playing and for developers to understand what to target… there’s a lot of value in having that one spec. I think we’ll opt to keep the one performance level for a little bit longer, and only look at changing the performance level when there is a significant gain to be had
Valve is making the battery easier to replace
We have rolled in a change to the geometry of the adhesive, making the battery easier to loosen.
Valve is working on an audio mixer for game, music, and chat
We have been developing the technology needed to do that. You can control the audio volume and duck the volume of certain applications without affecting the whole system, and we’ll be rolling that out to Deck at some point.
They’re fixing the Bluetooth audio lag — but don’t count on Bluetooth mics
Bluetooth profile / codec selection work is ongoing for the game-mode side of things – that said, you can currently change this setting in desktop mode and it will carry over. We are still looking at Bluetooth microphone support, but due to certification, quality, device switching issues, we still recommend using either a wired microphone or the built-in microphone.
Read the full interview here.
