What does “nigh” mean here?
Is this going to be announced in the next couple of months, or next couple of years?
“The meaning of NIGH is near in place, time, or relationship”
So are we safely in get excited territory or still in ignore until announced territory?
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mainly just a new Wi-Fi module right?
I heard newer model have new fan type as well
Using the word “refresh” seems like quite a stretch here…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The mystery “Valve 1030” that went through South Korea’s National Radio Research Agency has now been definitively identified as a Steam Deck, and it’s our first proof the hardware’s potentially close enough to release to justify showing it to regulators.
Quectel filed for a Class II Permission Change to simply allow its certified Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth chip, the FC66E, to retroactively work in a new Steam Deck, too.
It’s a clever technique — as you can see in the document above, Valve’s supplier is able to argue that the new Steam Deck has a weaker antenna, so its radio emissions don’t need to be retested.
Valve can hide whatever new features it likes behind the Wi-Fi chip certification because these agencies only tend to regulate radio emissions, not other specs.
I have to admit it could simply be an existing Steam Deck with a refreshed radio chip if its previous supplier, Realtek, ran out.
Lynch continues to find code snippets that suggest a wireless PC VR headset is also on the way — I wouldn’t be surprised if Valve announces both items simultaneously.
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Didn’t valve literally just say that were at least a few years out from a refresh?
They said we were at least a few years out from a performance upgrade, but a refresh could involve other things like nicer screen, battery, hall effect joysticks, etc. So they could still preserve the same performance target and still release a premium version in the meantime.
Watch SadlyItsBradley and TylerMcVicker on YouTube, these are the guys who actually datamine SteamVR and SteamOS for themselves. They’re both saying Steam Deck 2 is not currently in development. Valve’s current thing is more likely a console-like machine running slightly more powerful hardware, plus Valve’s upcoming VR headset. A prototype of this console actually showed up in the background of “The Final Hours of Half Life: Alyx”.
