Steam Deck OLED announced with longer battery life – price drop for original models

Stefan L 10/11/23 Comments Closed

Valve has shaken up the Steam Deck handheld gaming PC with a new Steam Deck OLED that promises a slightly larger and much more vibrant screen and much longer battery life. The new Steam Deck OLED will launch next week with orders going live on 16th November, and prices starting at £479 for a 512GB model.

With this new OLED Steam Deck, Valve are ushering the original Steam Deck with an LCD screen down to a lower price point for the 256GB SSD model – it’s now £349 – while making the 64GB and 512GB LCD models end of life – they’re being sold off at £309 and £389 while stock lasts.

The new OLED Steam Deck will ever-so-slightly increase the screen space for buyers, with the new model having a 7.4″ diagonal display, compared to the original’s 7″, though with the same 1280 x 800 resolution. It will also be significantly brighter, able to push 600 nits at SDR (up from 400 nits), and up to 1000 nits for HDR.

This is much more than just a swapped out screen though, as Valve has made a bunch of improvements to the chipset (now at 6nm instead of 7nm), integrated a Wi-Fi 6E chipset, and increased the battery by 25% (50Whr instead of 40Whr). Despite the bigger battery, the Steam Deck is slightly lighter (640g instead of 669g)

Between the battery and APU shrink, the console can now boast a 50% battery life improvement. Depending on content, you should now get 3-12 hours of gameplay, up from 2-8 hours.

Two storage sizes will be available, with the OLED Steam Deck starting at 512GB for £479, while the 1TB option costs £569. Storage can still be augmented with a micro SDXC card slot.

Here’s all the specs:

Steam Deck OLED