Valve’s next mystery gadget may be imminent
Valve’s next mystery gadget may be imminent
1030? Galileo? Sephiroth? We’re way past rumors now.
I really hope they give us an updated steam controller
Seriously, after having the Steam Deck for a while I'm really upset I missed out on the Steam Controller.
Lol you can have mine if you want. It was pretty good for older PC games that were designed for mouse and keyboard, but it didn’t really work well for more modern titles designed for Xbox or PlayStation controllers. Also, forget about anything fast paced or competitive since missed and keyboard or a conventional controller just blows it out of the water.
The fact that they just recently announced more fine-grained categorization on what kind of controllers a game supports makes me think you are probably right.
i’m guessing a “mini gaming pc” version of the deck with no screen.
A Steam Machine you mean?
I'd bet on a new VR headset, not a new handheld
Can they fix their goddamn joysticks first? The I dex controllers are great but having to RMA every few months is a pain.
They do have a bit more experience with those now from both the index and deck
If it has WiFi It sounds like it might be a wireless VR headset? Or maybe a Wireless add-on module for the existing headset. Although I would think that would use be the 60Ghz frequencies not the 5Ghz.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
South Korea’s National Radio Research Agency has certified a “low power wireless device” from Valve with the designation “RC-V1V-1030,” as spotted by @dxpl at Arca.live (via Brad Lynch).
The South Korean certification tells us basically nothing about the device, save that it uses 5GHz Wi-Fi, which most computers already have at this point.
But telecommunications regulatory agencies typically don’t require certification for internal prototypes — only if you’re going to import at least a small quantity of devices in a country, and maybe put them on sale.
There are other hints in Valve’s own code, however — Phoronix’s Michael Larabel spotted that Valve has added new changes around the Steam Deck’s Van Gogh APU, including the mysterious product name “Galileo” and product family “Sephiroth.” (Aerith, closely connected to Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII, is another name for the Deck’s APU.)
While Larabel initially suggests it might just be a Steam Deck refresh reference board, Valve’s Greg Coomer told me in 2021 that the Steam Deck’s existing APU might make sense in a standalone VR headset.
A standalone VR headset codenamed Deckard was at least being prototyped inside Valve, sources confirmed to YouTuber Brad Lynch and Ars Technica back in 2021, and some patent images made the rounds last June.
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