Despite problems with the supply of components that caused the launch to be delayed at the time, it looks like it Valve satisfied with business performance Steam Deckbecause in a recently released console/mini-PC book he explained that this device is just the beginning and that he intends to go deeper in the same line.

Valve goes into explaining the history, circumstances, characteristics and its intentions around the Steam Deck, but what is of interest to the general public is on page 26, where the reader is taken to a section called “The Future: More Steam Decks, More SteamOS”. The name itself leaves very little to the imagination they implicitly confirm the existence of Steam Deck 2. This should not be so surprising, considering that last June we repeated that AMD was preparing a processor for the second generation of the console, but this book published by the corporation behind Steam is responsible for removing any doubts.

When we say Valve dips into the same line, we mean it maintains its commitment to SteamOS, its operating system based on GNU/Linux technologies. The company stated that “SteamOS will continue to evolve, including new features and game compatibility improvements via “Proton”. At the time of writing, hundreds of changes have been made to the Steam Deck operating system since the device first shipped. This will continue for the lifetime of the Steam Deck until future generations of the product have been on the market for some time.”

Proton is a Wine-based compatibility layer powered by Valve that makes it easy to run Windows video games on Linux and macOS. It’s obviously a core part of SteamOS and the Steam Deck, but its dominance over native games is something that causes debate in circles. Linux users. It currently supports a large number of titles available for Windows and is able to offer very good performance thanks to the good work of the translators it contains.

In addition to future generations of the console, Valve has announced that it is in the works bring the Steam Deck user interface to the desktop client available for Windows, Linux and macOS as a new version of the Big Picture interface, which is oriented towards Steam Link and to facilitate manipulation of the Steam application through the controller. We’ll see if Linux makes it easier to use gamescope, a composer developed by Valve for SteamOS, which is released as free software.

The next thing that Valve announced is that “Steam Deck support will be inherited by other platforms such as ChromeOS, which will soon bring Steam gaming support to all Chromebook users.” This reinforces the line that the Steam client for ChromeOS is based on development done around Linux and Steam Deck, and since Google Stadia failed, it’s in the search giant’s interest that Valve is heavily implanted to your system. better compete with Windows.

In short, not only will there be a Steam Deck 2, but Valve is looking to port the interface used by the console to other systems it supports, and has ChromeOS as one of its priorities going forward alongside SteamOS.