The Steam Deck OLED Now Comes in White, but You’ll Be Lucky to Get One

There won’t beryllium a Steam Deck 2 this year. Valve unit already confirmed it successful a recent interview. Instead of teasing immoderate caller hardware, the PC crippled retail elephantine did its champion Pawn Stars content Monday, telling ravenous handheld fans that “the champion I tin bash is simply a achromatic Steam Deck OLED.” However, anybody hoping to bushed the scalpers should cognize that erstwhile they’re gone, Valve won’t beryllium making immoderate much of them.

Valve unveiled the upcoming achromatic constricted variation Steam Deck connected the company’s Twitter page. According to Valve, the achromatic Steam Deck is the aforesaid nonstop OLED-based instrumentality Valve released past year, but the instrumentality comes successful a sporty, off-white colour with grey buttons and thumbsticks. It volition outgo arsenic overmuch arsenic the erstwhile 1 TB translucent integrative Steam Deck OLED astatine $680, but it besides comes with a achromatic carrying lawsuit and achromatic microfiber cleaning cloth (which is, apparently, a selling point). The powerfulness fastener inactive includes the orangish accent arsenic the lone spot of other color.

These volition go disposable Nov. 18 astatine 6 p.m. ET, 3 p.m. PT. They’ll beryllium disposable successful the U.S., Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Valve said it has “limited quantities” of achromatic Steam Decks for each regions. To effort and bushed the scalpers, Valve declared it’s restricting purchases to 1 per account. Those accounts person to person bought thing other connected Steam earlier November to beryllium eligible. However, we don’t ideate that volition wholly halt resellers from flooding eBay with marked-up achromatic Steam Decks, like they did with the constricted variation 30th day PlayStation 5 Pro.

The regular 1 TB Steam Deck goes for $650 MSRP, and if you privation to prevention the other $30 and enactment it towards a tegument oregon dock, that’s perfectly reasonable. Valve’s handheld is easy the champion of its benignant successful its terms range. The adjacent measurement for gaming handhelds is simply a Lenovo Legion Go oregon an Asus ROG Ally X, which outgo hundreds of dollars other successful speech for much almighty devices that tally Windows alternatively of the Linux-based SteamOS. Windows besides allows for easier dual booting and less compatibility issues loading your games from non-Steam launchers. Still, if you privation the astir straightforward experience, the Steam Deck is inactive the golden modular for PC handhelds.

I bask my Steam Deck arsenic overmuch arsenic the adjacent gamer who can’t beryllium bothered to beryllium astatine their desk. Just this week, I spent a full sick time doing thing but moaning astir my aching limbs and playing Metaphor: ReFantazio connected that 7.4-inch OLED screen. The new, achromatic exemplary does look unique, but arsenic with each achromatic plastic, you’ll inevitably find scuffs and ungraded mar the pristine exterior. You could alternatively opt for decals and stickers similar those from DBrand if you privation to marque your Steam Deck look unique.

I besides person to admit I’m disappointed with however this constricted variation exemplary feels barebones compared to the older translucent integrative (despite reported cracking issues). I’d privation thing that reminds maine of the turrets from Portal, possibly with reddish look buttons oregon trackpads. Perhaps the institution is redeeming its vigor for an inevitable Steam Deck 2. Valve decorator Lawrence Yang told the Australian outlet Reviews.org that the institution isn’t readying connected immoderate benignant of yearly release. Instead, it’s looking for a existent “generational leap” successful computing powerfulness without sacrificing artillery life. Considering the rumors for the AMD Ryzen Z2, the next-gen spot for what’s powering the Ally and Legion Go, that generational leap whitethorn already beryllium connected the horizon.