Valve wants to make Steam Deck updates as convenient as updating your phone

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TL;DR

• Valve hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat told The Verge that the company is “interested in supporting” automatic docked updates for Steam Deck.
• The Steam Deck currently only downloads and applies updates while powered on.
• The upcoming Steam Machine will apparently support more convenient background updating options.

Last week, Valve surprised us with the announcement of three new hardware products. None of them were a second-generation Steam Deck, but a Valve hardware engineer teased that the company’s thinking about a requested quality-of-life update for its handheld: to allow docked Steam Decks to update automatically, the same way the upcoming Steam Machine can while it’s idle.

According to The Verge, Valve’s Yazan Aldehayyat told the publication that automatic docked updates are “something we are really interested in supporting.” Aldehayyat didn’t commit to bringing the feature to Steam Deck, but that Valve is thinking about it at all seems like a good sign.




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