Valve announces Steam Deck OLED with more storage, bigger battery

Valve at the moment revealed a brand new mannequin of its Steam Deck handheld gaming console. This new Deck has an OLED show, and comes with a number of upgrades over the older variations, together with an even bigger battery and heftier storage choices. It seems that Steam is now shelving two of the three LCD fashions and won’t promote them as soon as provides run out, with the OLED model supplanting them on the gross sales web page. Each fashions (in addition to a restricted version colorway) can be accessible to order on November 16.

The OLED model of the console is available in two variations: A $549 mannequin with 512GB of storage, and a $649 mannequin with 1TB of storage. Each have a 7.4″ display, which is bigger than the 7″ display on the present fashions, and a 50Whr battery, which Valve says will final for 3-12 hours of playtime over the present fashions’ 2-8 hours.

The Deck’s retailer web page on Steam reads: “The 64GB and 512GB Steam Deck LCD fashions are being phased out. Now we have completely discounted these fashions and they are going to be accessible till they’re out of inventory.” Each fashions are nonetheless accessible on the time of this writing. The shop additionally advertises the brand new OLED colorway, with a smoky translucent physique and darkish orange accents, which is accessible the identical day as the remainder of the OLED fashions.

The Steam Deck OLED isn’t a brand new console — any query of a “Steam Deck 2” remains to be a number of years away. Valve engineers spoke with Polygon and IGN, in each circumstances saying that the know-how to create a brand new, higher console isn’t there but. Final month, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais also told The Verge {that a} true successor to the Steam Deck is a number of years away, as the corporate needs to create a console with a big efficiency enhance.