Don’t think they are lying about the denial, they said they wanted the upgrade to be big and the z2 is marginally better than what the Steam Deck already has. I would guess a Steam Deck 2 is years away, but we might get a Steam Home Console, or maybe the Deckard VR headset. I kinda doubt any of those would run a z2 though. Why would Valve be using an off the shelf chip when they had a custom chip last time?

It’s Tyler, but he includes the decompiled String in the videos found in other Source 2 games. YouTube Link

While personally I really want more VR Half Life, I don’t think that is what we are getting. Too many leaked strings regarding crowbars and HEV suits. But I guess we will see.

Kinda doubt it will be an Alyx sequel, unless there is something new and exciting they can do in that space. Valve doesn’t like to make games just to advance the story, and I’m not sure what more they could do in VR.

Yeah, this is the number one thing that keeps me from even considering the deck competitors.

This is not even true, they rewrote the engine to support native 64-bit precision to let them fit large spaces, they didn’t just make everything small. They basically employ all the people that used to make Cryengine since Crytek went out of business, so the engine they are building is actually pretty good.