Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia

Australians volition yet beryllium capable to officially bargain Valve’s Steam Deck successful their location state — 2 and a fractional years aft the handheld gaming PC archetypal went connected sale, and a twelvemonth aft it arrived successful Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Australians person been asking for this for years — and Valve promised to marque it hap way backmost successful November 2021.

It’ll get this November successful the aforesaid superior configurations Valve sells elsewhere: a 256GB configuration of the archetypal LCD model, oregon 512GB and 1TB versions of the newer OLED exemplary that besides travel with longer artillery life, a amended screen, and more. They’ll outgo AUD $649, $899, and $1,049 respectively.

(While the OLED exemplary does outgo $250 AUD much than the original, it has truthful galore important changes that I’d personally urge it implicit the LCD mentation to anyone who tin spend it.)

While adjacent the OLED exemplary volition beryllium an full twelvemonth aged by the clip it arrives successful Australia, there’s nary existent denotation that Valve volition merchandise a faster, amended mentation anytime soon — and nary handheld moving Windows tin presently lucifer it for portable ease-of-use, adjacent though immoderate person an borderline successful show and the Asus ROG Ally X tin besides bushed it successful AAA gaming artillery life.

That said, Valve whitethorn besides bring its SteamOS to rival handhelds similar the Asus ROG Ally X earlier excessively galore much months spell by, and I’ve been precise impressed erstwhile moving Bazzite’s mentation of the SteamOS interface connected my Ally X reappraisal portion (though it has its wrinkles).

If you’re astatine PAX Australia successful Melbourne, you tin effort the Steam Deck astatine Valve’s booth today.