Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia
overload@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoThey’re not hard to get, but you would pay $1200 AUD instead of $899 which is the retail for the 512GB OLED, for example.
Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia
overload@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoThey’re not hard to get, but you would pay $1200 AUD instead of $899 which is the retail for the 512GB OLED, for example.
CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Been telling folks for ages I’m not getting a steamdeck until I can give my money direct to valve.
overload@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Yeah that’s fair. I caved for the LCD and again the oled. Have probably overpaid $650 all up over the last 18 months but its a great device.
CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Do we have a rough idea for when the 2 will be coming? Id almost rather wait for newer hardware if it’s not too far off.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
It’s probably a year or two out, at least. They want the Steam Deck 2 to be a proper power jump from the original, and there hasn’t been any significant hardware improvements that would allow that yet.
Other handhelds have more power, but they do that by dumping way more power into the chipset for increasingly small returns. It’s not really worth it to make a new Steam Deck with one of those chipsets because you would be trading off most of the battery life for any power increase.
SlamWich@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I wouldn’t hold out for a 2 necessarily. Not sure it’s gonna follow the console ~5 year release cycle