Valve has introduced a brand new white and grey variant of its uber-popular moveable PC system, the Steam Deck. This upcoming model of the hand held PC will value $680 and can go on sale on November 18.
We’ve mentioned it earlier than, but it surely’s value repeating: Valve’s Steam Deck is an superior piece of {hardware}. It’s the very best and most inexpensive handheld PC in the marketplace, and since launching in 2022 it’s shortly impressed imitators and adjusted the best way folks play video games. However the authentic Steam Deck solely got here in a single shade: black. Boring. We’d like one thing new and recent. And Valve is able to present that with its newly revealed white and grey Steam Deck.
On November 11, Valve introduced the restricted version all-white Steam Deck OLED. The system might be out there in all Steam Deck delivery areas, together with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia.
This new model of the Steam Deck has the identical specs because the beforehand current OLED, together with 1 TB of storage, but additionally comes with a white carrying case and cleansing fabric.
Valve warns that this mannequin might be a restricted version system and that it doesn’t plan on making any extra white Steam Decks after this batch is launched. “As soon as we’re bought out, we might be bought out,” defined Valve in a information put up concerning the system.
It’s essential to have a Steam account in good standing that has made at the very least one buy earlier than November 2024 to purchase the brand new restricted version all-white Steam Deck. Accounts are restricted to solely pre-ordering one system.
Valve defined to Eurogamer that this new model of the Steam Deck is one other experiment in providing totally different variants to folks around the globe.
“Final yr, we launched a smoky translucent restricted version Steam Deck OLED as an experiment to search out out if there was curiosity in various colorways (there was!). That is our second experiment alongside these traces,” mentioned Valve.
As somebody who was planning to attend to improve their Steam Deck till the following main revision, this all-white choice is making it arduous to stay to that dedication.
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