October 11, 2024

Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia

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Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

Australians will finally be able to officially buy Valve’s Steam Deck in their home country — two and a half years after the handheld gaming PC first went on sale, and a year after it arrived in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Australians have been asking for this for years — and Valve promised to make it happen way back in November 2021.

It’ll arrive this November in the same primary configurations Valve sells elsewhere: a 256GB configuration of the original LCD model, or 512GB and 1TB versions of the newer OLED model that also come with longer battery life, a better screen, and more. They’ll cost AUD $649, $899, and $1,049 respectively.

(While the OLED model does cost $250 AUD more than the original, it has so many important…

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