There are certain products where an annual release has been normalised. Smartphones, tablets and smartwatches to name a few. And while it’s relatively young, certain manufacturers in the gaming handheld PC space have seemingly already settled into yearly refreshes. But for Valve, the company that helped popularise gaming handheld PCs with the Steam Deck, admitted that’s not something they want to do in a recent interview with us.
Valve thinks incremental handheld refreshes are “not really fair to customers”
Pictured: Lenovo Legion Go
// Yearly? Nah, yeah-ly.
1 min read“It is important to us, and we’ve tried to be really clear, we are not doing the yearly cadence. We’re not going to do a bump every year. There’s no reason to do that,” said Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang.
While no Steam Deck competitors were directly named, it’s clear that Valve doesn’t think it’s a good look for the gaming handheld space.
“And, honestly, from our perspective, that’s kind of not really fair to your customers to come out with something so soon that’s only incrementally better,” added Yang.
For context, there was only a year between the release of the Ayaneo and the Ayaneo 2, and the Asus ROG Ally landed in 2023 with the refreshed ROG Ally X arriving in 2024. MSI told the Verge that it had plans for the Claw 2, Claw 3 and Claw 4 in the next two years. Refreshingly, like Valve with its Steam Deck 2, Lenovo is reportedly not in a rush to release the Lenovo Legion Go 2.
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