One thing to sit up for: When you’ve ever seemed on the Steam Deck and wished there was a model to match your all-white PC construct, Valve has simply made your day. The corporate has introduced {that a} particular restricted version of the Steam Deck OLED in white and grey colours will launch subsequent week.
The Steam Deck OLED: Restricted Version White will launch worldwide on November 18th, 2024 at 3PM PST. Priced at $679 – $30 greater than the usual black model – it is going to be obtainable in restricted portions in all Steam Deck transport areas, together with Australia.
Apart from the brand new colours, the upcoming Steam Deck has all the identical specs as the usual OLED 1TB mannequin, so you are not going to see any efficiency enhancements.
Nevertheless, these fortunate sufficient to seize one of many white Steam Deck models can even obtain an unique white carry case and white microfiber cleansing material, which is unlikely to remain white for very lengthy.
Whats up! We’re excited to announce that Steam Deck OLED: Restricted Version White can be obtainable worldwide on November 18th, 2024 at 3PM PST. This mannequin will value $679 USD, and can be obtainable in all Steam Deck transport areas.
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Valve says it has allotted inventory of the white Steam Deck proportionally throughout every area. As soon as they’re bought out, they’re gone without end; Valve will not be making any extra. The actual fact it is a restricted version means we will anticipate the brand new Steam Deck to be a first-rate goal of scalpers – do not be shocked to see this one listed for a small fortune on eBay.
To attempt to cease scalpers, Valve is proscribed gross sales to at least one unit per account. Furthermore, the accounts should have made a Steam buy earlier than November 2024 and be in good standing to be eligible to make a purchase order.
As for why Valve is releasing this variant, the corporate says that it launched a smoky translucent restricted version Steam Deck OLED as an experiment final 12 months to gauge if there was an curiosity in various colorways. Because it proved in style, Valve is doing it once more. So, whereas there will not be any extra white Steam Decks made after this one, there might be different shade choices sooner or later.
As a reminder, the OLED Steam Deck’s specs embrace a 1280 x 800 7.4-inch HDR OLED display, 16GB of LPDDR5, and an AMD APU that includes a quad-core Zen 2 CPU and an RDNA 2-based GPU with 8 compute models.