Australians will yet beryllium capable to officially bargain Valve’s Steam Deck successful their location state — 2 and a half years aft the handheld gaming PC first 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 make 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 original LCD model, aliases 512GB and 1TB versions of the newer OLED exemplary that besides travel pinch longer artillery life, a amended screen, and more. They’ll costs AUD $649, $899, and $1,049 respectively.
(While the OLED exemplary does costs $250 AUD much than the original, it has truthful galore important changes that I’d personally urge it complete the LCD type to anyone who tin spend it.)
While moreover the OLED exemplary will beryllium an full twelvemonth aged by the clip it arrives successful Australia, there’s nary existent denotation that Valve will merchandise a faster, amended type anytime soon — and nary handheld moving Windows tin presently lucifer it for portable ease-of-use, moreover though immoderate person an separator successful capacity and the Asus ROG Ally X tin besides hit it successful AAA gaming artillery life.
That said, Valve whitethorn besides bring its SteamOS to rival handhelds for illustration the Asus ROG Ally X earlier excessively galore much months spell by, and I’ve been very impressed erstwhile moving Bazzite’s type 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.