With the Steam Deck completely dominating PC gaming information over the past 12 months and alter, and loads of avid gamers wanting into the VR pattern, it’s no surprise that everybody’s looking out for a brand new {hardware} gadget from Valve. And we’ve discovered one…at the least in essentially the most technical sense. A South Korean regulatory company simply posted a list for a brand new {hardware} machine manufactured for Valve. We know one factor about it: It has a Wi-Fi radio. That’s all there may be, there isn’t any extra.

The story begins with a forum post, which in flip factors to South Korea’s Radio Research Agency (and noticed by PCGamer). This is the Korean equal of the FCC within the United States, which units requirements for any machine with a wi-fi radio. The certification (with assistance from machine translation) lists Valve as a producer, China because the nation of origin, “1030” as a mannequin quantity, and the truth that the machine has low-power wi-fi networking capabilities within the 5GHz spectrum. In layman’s phrases: It’s an digital machine, and it has Wi-Fi. And at the least somebody at Valve is getting ready this factor on the market to the general public.

This might be a brand new Steam Deck. Or it might be a brand new Valve Index headset. Or it might be a brand new Steam Controller, or a brand new Steam Link, or a Valve-branded smartwatch, or a microwave that may let you know when your Starfield obtain is completed. Some of those are extra seemingly than others, however the chance that it is a brand-new, never-before-seen piece of game-playing {hardware} isn’t tremendous excessive on the record based mostly on the knowledge we’re given. For instance, this might be an up to date itemizing for the Steam Deck, similar in all {hardware} specs besides that Valve switched to a brand new components provider for the Wi-Fi radio.

Without wishing to rain on anybody’s parade, all indications from Valve thus far point to a multi-year wait for any important redesigns of the present Steam Deck machine. An replace of the Valve Index is more likely, and including wi-fi capabilities looks like a pure extension of the design. There have been indications that Valve is working on a standalone VR device that doesn’t want a gaming PC, making it a direct competitor to Meta’s Quest 2 and Quest 3.

And it’s additionally potential that this regulatory itemizing is the primary and final we’ll ever see of this explicit machine, as one thing within the labyrinthian strategy of bringing a product to the buyer market will get fouled up. Lieutenant Buzzkill, reporting for obligation, sir.