Valve's Steam controller never quite caught on, and it seems that a large part of this had to do with its forward looking but unfamiliar looking surface layout. Rather than your usual thumbsticks ...

Following the debut and eventual discontinuation of its original Steam controller, Valve is now said to be working on another iteration, under the codename Ibex.

While the previous prototype for Valve's Steam Machine game controller looked functional enough, the lack of a traditional face button layout was troubling.

Updating the Steam Deck website, Valve says it's now packing its portable with a PCIe 3 x2 NVMe SSD, which has half the top speed of the current PCIe 3 x4 models.