The Steam Deck is one of the best handheld gaming consoles you can buy on the market today. It has truly exceeded everyone's expectations in terms of having optimization on both the hardware and software fronts. Valve released an update just now with an OLED screen, a bigger battery and other upgrades. Still, a second-gen Steam Deck isn't coming out anytime soon, as confirmed by Valve. So if you're curious about when Steam Deck 2 is coming, read on.

After the launch of the Steam Deck OLED, several people have questions related to the next generation console. So far, the huge popularity of the console in the market has triggered a completely different level of hype for its successor. IGN spoke with Valve's designer, Jay Shaw, and asked him "how far off a potential Steam Deck 2 would be."

In response, Jay said, "I don't know. It's going to be a while. I think it's going to be a long time. We don't have a set date. I think we're going to wait for the technology to present itself in a way that we think is interesting and that the team really wants to take that step. We're very, very, very proud of this version of Steam Deck. This is the one we're most happy with and we think customers will be too be it. So we're thinking about Steam Deck 2 all the time, but I think we're so happy here that this is really the kind of high end of what we wanted to do."

While Valve is considering a Steam Deck 2, the team will wait before taking that step. When the current available technology advances to the point where the team believes they can make a new console, they will! The same timeframe was revealed by product designer Lawrence Yang to Bloomberg, who said it won't happen for at least two to three years.