Valve to launch a limited edition white Steam Deck OLED next week

Priced at $679, or ten times that on eBay

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Something to look forward to: If you've ever looked at the Steam Deck and wished there was a version to match your all-white PC build, Valve has just made your day. The company has announced that a special limited edition of the Steam Deck OLED in white and gray colors will launch next week.

The Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White will launch worldwide on November 18th, 2024 at 3PM PST. Priced at $679 – $30 more than the standard black version – it will be available in limited quantities in all Steam Deck shipping regions, including Australia.

Other than the new colors, the upcoming Steam Deck has all the same specs as the standard OLED 1TB model, so you're not going to see any performance improvements.

However, those lucky enough to grab one of the white Steam Deck units will also receive an exclusive white carry case and white microfiber cleaning cloth, which is unlikely to stay white for very long.

Valve says it has allocated stock of the white Steam Deck proportionally across each region. Once they're sold out, they're gone forever; Valve won't be making any more. The fact it's a limited edition means we can expect the new Steam Deck to be a prime target of scalpers – don't be surprised to see this one listed for a small fortune on eBay.

To try to stop scalpers, Valve is limited sales to one unit per account. Moreover, the accounts must have made a Steam purchase before November 2024 and be in good standing to be eligible to make a purchase.

As for why Valve is releasing this variant, the company says that it released a smoky translucent limited edition Steam Deck OLED as an experiment last year to gauge if there was an interest in alternative colorways. As it proved popular, Valve is doing it again. So, while there may not be any more white Steam Decks made after this one, there could be other color options in the future.

As a reminder, the OLED Steam Deck's specs include a 1280 x 800 7.4-inch HDR OLED screen, 16GB of LPDDR5, and an AMD APU featuring a quad-core Zen 2 CPU and an RDNA 2-based GPU with 8 compute units.