{"id":13229,"date":"2022-08-26T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/26\/the-new-steam-deck-ebook-lays-out-valves-long-term-vision\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:13:07","slug":"the-new-steam-deck-ebook-lays-out-valves-long-term-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/26\/the-new-steam-deck-ebook-lays-out-valves-long-term-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Steam Deck ebook lays out Valve\u2019s long-term vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/25\/23322516\/valve-steam-deck-long-term-vision-digital-book-ebook-booklet<\/a>
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On Thursday, Valve released a digital \u201cbooklet\u201d all about the Steam Deck, Steam, and the company itself<\/a>. Valve says it released the book ahead of the Steam Deck\u2019s launch in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong<\/a>, but the book also happens to arrive on the six-month anniversary of when Valve sent the first order emails allowing people to buy their Steam Deck<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The 52-page ebook is free, and if you\u2019re at all interested in Valve or the Steam Deck, I\u2019d recommend flipping through it. Not only are there a few pages littered with Steam Deck prototypes, but you\u2019ll also be able to read about Valve\u2019s ambitions for the Steam Deck in its own words. <\/p>\n

Perhaps the most notable part is that Valve is committing to the Steam Deck and SteamOS as a \u201cmulti-generational product line.\u201d Valve has called the Steam Deck a \u201cmulti-generational category\u201d in the past<\/a>, but the company goes even farther with what it prints in the book (and because it\u2019s printed in a book, it\u2019s definitely that much more official):<\/p>\n

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Anyway, this is a multi-generational product line. Valve will support Steam Deck and SteamOS well into the foreseeable future. We will learn from the Steam community about new uses for our hardware that we haven\u2019t thought of yet, and we will build new versions to be even more open and capable than the first version of Steam Deck has been.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After reading that, I\u2019m already eagerly anticipating the Steam Deck 3, though hopefully the third entry of a certain video game series<\/a> arrives before that does.<\/p>\n

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