Probably doing more licensed games.  When you think about it a license game gives the best possible outcome for the game to recoup the cost of development if the license is popular enough.  You only have to look at the license games coming from Sony to see how well that works out.  I believe there will be a group dedicated to pumping out some popular license.  A group you working solely on popular internal IP and you might even have some working on smaller games or AA games but we will see with that.  I am not surprised now that I look at the dynamics to see this consolidation because if we look at how well other split studios have gone, they have not been all that successful.  Splitting your teams to make more games isn't always the best solution and in certain situations it just split your ability to develop quality within the games you are doing because you just do not have enough senior people working on the project.

Valve has said that they are considering further hardware additions, but that’s kind of been it lol. It really depends on how cheap hardware that would be considered “next gen” in a handheld becomes. I wouldn’t expect anything until at least 2025 or even 2026.

"What you're seeing is advanced warfare."

I've only seen one SteamDeck 2 leak, and it's from a dubious source. That source said:

• Increase from 800p screen to 900p OLED with a 90hz refresh rate
• Zen 4 CPU, up from Zen 2 on SteamDeck 1
• RDNA 4 GPU, up from RDNA 2 on SteamDeck 1, with double the compute units (probably around a 3x upgrade in performance)
• Higher price tag than SteamDeck 1
• Launch in Q3-Q4 2026

The source is dubious at best, so probably not all that accurate.

As for how the current PC handhelds compare:

Screen- Lenovo Legion Go wins by a landslide, as the only handheld with a 1440p screen and 144hz refresh rate, Ally has 1080p and SteamDeck 800p, both with lower refresh rates

Specs- Legion Go with a slight edge over ROG Ally, both have the same CPU and GPU but Legion Go has faster RAM, both are a GPU and CPU generation ahead of SteamDeck

Battery Life- Legion Go has the largest battery, but with a caveat that it's higher resolution screen will be more battery draining, so battery life will likely only improve over the others at a lower resolution. ROG Ally and Legion Go both use fast chargers that will charge them in half the time of Steam Deck

OS-Steam Deck is a Linux-based OS, which means only games with Linux ports are playable. You can install Windows on SteamDeck, but buying a Windows License will increase the costs, negating some of it's price advantage over ROG Ally and Legion Go

Price- Steam Deck is the cheapest of the 3 with pricing ranging between $400 and $650 for it's 3 models. ROG Ally and Legion Go both have a high end $700 model, while Ally also has a low end model with a weaker chipset that is closer to Steam Deck in performance for $600

I'm unimpressed with what AMD current latest 780m (used in z1 extreme) offer over the steamdeck apu in terms of perf/watt and I suppose Valve have the same conclusion. So I think they are waiting for RDNA 4 at minimum.

No achievements? That is very disappointing. Though, I will still pick it up and play through the new content. Unlike the Among Us DLC, which I didn't bother getting as I don't care for that game.

Not entire true. Valve created a compatibility layer called Proton which is what allows Windows based games to play on Linux. A huge majority of the Steam library is compatible with Steam Deck now. 

The big thing that's also held up Windows based handheld PCs is Windows. The OS just doesn't work well with handheld devices like that. But, that does seem to be finally getting addressed with Windows being optimized for handheld PCs, which does help with the rumors about an Xbox handheld. 

If MS is able to nail the OS, that could be a bit of a detriment to Steam Deck because it now offers the same functionality that Steam Deck offered from the start, just with more consumer friendly practices such as right to self repair.

Agreed, Microsoft badly needs to make a proper handheld OS, which they probably are considering the rumors that the Xbox handheld will release within the next 2 years.