Steam Deck OLED promises better screen, longer battery life, and faster Wi-Fi

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An update to Valve’s handheld PC gaming system, a “Limited Edition” Steam Deck OLED, will be available next week. The new version improves the screen quality, the amount of battery, and the Wi-Fi capacity, plus a “6nm APU.” Starting at $549 for the 512GB storage version, the OLED Decks are available beginning November 16, with “highly limited” quantities.

LCD models of the Steam Deck are also being phased out, with discounts on the 64GB and 512 GB versions while supplies last.

Valve claims the Steam Deck OLED will offer “brighter colors, blacker blacks,” with “amazing motion rendition,” shoring up one of the major nitpicks about the Deck’s launch version. The OLED model also touts 30–50 percent more battery life, weighs 30 g less than the original, and can download up to three times faster.