After briefly offering a transparent Steam Deck OLED last year, Valve has announced its next limited edition version, featuring a bold new color: “White.” It will be priced at $679 when it launches on November 18th and features the exact same hardware as the 1TB Steam Deck OLED. (Most importantly, it has a gorgeous 7.4-inch display with HDR and 90Hz refresh rate). Of course, there is also a white carrying case. It’s hard to ignore the dangers of white console hardware (especially on larger portables that are sure to get a lot of hand grease on them), but this new variation may convince early Steam Deck owners to make the jump. I might.
As we covered in our review, the Steam Deck OLED’s display looks significantly bolder than the original LCD model, especially with the addition of HDR support. Now, Valve says it will also ship a limited edition white model to the world where Steam Deck is already available (including Australia).
“We are curious to see what the response is and will use what we learn to inform future decisions about potential new color variations,” Valve said in an email. Ta. “We have always stated that our goal is to continually improve Steam Deck, both from a software perspective (continuously shipping improvements) and from a hardware perspective (Steam Deck OLED, and Steam Continuing efforts towards the future of the deck and other hardware plans).
