Valve may soon announce a new hardware device

One could hit the market soon new hardware device from Valve. This is suggested by a certification that appeared in the database of South Korea’s National Radio Research Agency relating to a unit equipped with low-power 5 GHz wireless connectivity and identified with the code RC-V1V-1030.

The description, it must be said, does not help to understand what we are talking about, adapting to a large number of possible systems and peripherals, but according to some clues that have emerged in the past it could refer to a virtual reality viewer or to an updated version of Steam Deck.

Talking about a possible revision or updated model of the Steam Deck, Valve itself has defined its portable hybrid as the first of a line of multi-generational products, anticipating both the arrival of new, more powerful and more open versions, and the arrival of improved revisions from the screen point of view and the battery. This could therefore be the case with the new Valve hardware device.

But the company also referred to possibilities new uses for Steam Deck hardwarewhich is completely consistent with the clues that have emerged in recent years in relation to a new virtual reality headset from Valve, code name Deckard. It must be said that the viewer has not been talked about since 2021, but in the meantime Valve has registered the patent a virtual reality controller. Furthermore, in these two years there has also been talk of a new Steam Controller 2, the heir to the PC controller that was abandoned by the company in 2019.

With all these possibilities at play, it’s not easy to predict what shape the new Valve hardware will take, but they are there some clues which, given the timing with which they appeared, they really seem to be attributable to the device in question, although it is impossible to be certain, and which they bring to exclude the possibility that it is some type of controller. Instead, they push us to think that it could actually be a revision of the Steam Deck or an alternative use of the hardware mounted in Valve’s portable hybrid, such as the aforementioned virtual reality viewer.

Some lines of code suggest all this version 6.6 of the Linux Kernelrecently released, which concern the expansion of audio support for the AMD Van Gogh APU, the same one found within Steam Deck. And it is in this same code that references to a product called Galileo and to Sephiroth product familya name that for those who know Final Fantasy VII refers with little doubt to the Steam Deck APU, also called Aerith.

Leaving aside the hypotheses, however, the certification exists and, as reported by The Verge, it does it’s difficult to talk about a prototype. Usually this type of procedure is only implemented if the possibility arises of importing a certain quantity of units of a given device which could therefore be very close to an official announcement.