Our friends down under will finally be able to buy an officially supported Steam Deck, as it heads to Australia officially in November. It's been a long road to get there, but it's finally happening which opens up Australia to other Valve hardware now too.
The Steam Deck LCD was originally released back in February 2022 and was later expanded with Valve's Komodo partnership to also be sold in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. Much later in November 2023, Valve then revealed the much better Steam Deck OLED.
From the press email the prices will be (inclusive of GST):
- 256GB LCD: $649.00 AUD
- 512GB OLED: $899.00 AUD
- 1TB OLED: $1049.00 AUD
Not bad pricing, and with the OLED truly being a much better device you really should grab that model if you can afford it. It's truly the definitive Steam Deck.
It's only going to get better too with the upcoming release of SteamOS 3.6.
Once Valve are eventually ready to talk more about a potential Steam Deck 2, this should also hopefully mean Australia won't be left out in the cold on release day. Although, it's also another signal that the current Steam Deck model is here to stay for some time yet.
You can follow along for more using our Steam Deck Tag (with a dedicated RSS feed), our Steam Deck Forum Category and the Steam Deck Channel in Discord.
See more on the Steam Deck website.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: Leahi84I guess in addition I prefer the high end graphics and resolution my PC and 1440 monitor gives me, so it's just not interesting to me to play that stuff in a smaller screen with graphics turned down.
I understand that and I do prefer the big one, too. I just found it convenient from time to time. (And it's far from the phone experience.)
Quoting: Leahi84To each their own.
Of course!
Last edited by Eike on 11 October 2024 at 6:32 pm UTC
ElectricPrism 1 hour ago
Quoting: Leahi84I guess in addition I prefer the high end graphics and resolution my PC and 1440 monitor gives me, so it's just not interesting to me to play that stuff in a smaller screen with graphics turned down. To each their own.
I have some pretty expensive Linux Gaming rigs 6900 XT, 7900 XT -- Threadripper and I gotta say that I play my Steam Deck OLED practically every day.
Lately I use my Steam Deck in conjunction with my Desktop - 4k @ 50" and 4k @ 75" and for me it makes Steam Controller v2 unnecessary because it literally is v2 with twin joysticks for like Halo MCC and other FPS.
I pre-ordered it out of obligation where mouth meets money, and since then I've probably ordered at least 7 or 8 mostly as gifts -- Valve and the Community have done an amazing job.
Liam is on point in the article the OLED 90hz version is lighter, easier to hold in odd positions and noticeably better.
But if the problem is that who has the extra budget these days, I totally get it, I just wanted to assure you that the grapes are not "sour" as in the "sour grapes" fable by aesop.
Steam deck relased in 4 regions initially, then later on in more 4 regions...
i saw the countries were steam had the biggest revenue, and saw that Brasil should be in the next batch of 4 countries...
then, not only they dont relase here, but its just one region this time.
i dont know why i still create false hopes.
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