@thelinuxexperiment I think your take on Valve needing to release a deck 2 immediately is extremely backwards.

They shouldn't try to start a handheld war with Nintendo. Let the Nintendo release shake out, support other players with steam os in the meantime expanding into already owned devices to prop numbers (not that this really matters given how valve is structured) and then drop a deck 2 mid hardware cycle with some of the optimisations that'll come from Sonys ps6 work etc. Possibly alongside Deckard as a device that can drive that and HL3.

People buying Switches will not reduce the relevance of Steam OS or the deck other than to temporarily reduce numbers during the release window. People buy switches for a small handful of games. They buy decks for their huge existing library.