Now available: the Steam Deck OLED with one terabyte of storage in white
10.7.2025
Translation: machine translated
The Steam Deck is only available in black as standard. A white version is also available as a limited edition. Below you can read a not entirely serious conversation between two steampunk inventors.
In November 2024, Valve announced a limited white edition of its handheld console Steam Deck (OLED). Now you can order the device including a white carrying case for the first time in our shop.
With the Steam Deck, you are no longer dependent on your computer to play your Steam games. In addition to classic controller control with gyro support, the Steam Deck has two touchpads that can be used to simulate mouse movements and clicks, for example.
Except for the colour, the White Edition corresponds to the Steam Deck OLED with one terabyte of memory. It has a 7.4-inch OLED touch display with a resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels.
The battery should last for three to twelve hours. However, I have rarely reached three hours with my Steam Deck OLED. The charging cable is 2.5 metres long, so there is usually a socket within reach from the couch.
Have you noticed that the Steam Deck doesn't look really white in the product images? If you feel like it, read on. In an alternate reality, it might have gone like this.
Why the Steam Deck doesn't shine in pure white
We were able to smuggle a genetically modified spy mouse into Valve's inventor's basement and eavesdrop on a secret meeting. Our Spy Mouse, equipped with the latest video technology (Digitec's own brand, of course), found a dark room. Tubes run along the walls, through which the eponymous steam is pumped into the steam deck. A monitor shows how many rare earths are added to the vapour.
By chance, our Spy Mouse arrives at just the right moment. It records how the first white steam deck flies into the hands of two inventors in a flash of sparks. It manages to transmit a picture of this moment.
Source: KI-generiert von Debora Pape
The sound recording starts.
Inventor 1: So that's how it's done. Years of tinkering and all the failures, now it's done. We have created the first Steam Deck White. Praise be to the spirit of invention!
Inventor 2: Eureka! But wait. That's not real white in the sense of pure white. It's more like dusty white.
Inventor 1: The pure white pigments exploded when they were applied to the prototype. There are no more.
Inventor 2: Heavens! What a loss. What about polar white?
Inventor 1: Didn't you read the pneumatic tube memo the week before last? Our expedition to the Arctic to collect the polar white dye has gone missing.
Inventor 2: The pneumatic tube must have ended up in the spam folder. Well, that's a shame. Who would have thought that launching a new colour would be so dangerous. So there's no real white for our Steam Deck?
Inventor 1: No, but gamers don't realise that. They always have the blinds down anyway.
Inventor 2: Shall we at least give the colour a fancy name then?
Inventor 1: How, «fancy name»? Why make a colour fancier than it is?
Inventor 2: Marketing. There are hardly any smartphones in grey or metallic beige. They are «Cobalt Onyx» or «Titan Desert Sand».
Inventor 1: We are not a smartphone. Our Steam Deck is functional, no Tik-Tok status icon, we ...
Inventor 2: ... for example, how about «Lunar White»? Like moon rock. Gamers love a space travel touch. Here, thing, «Starfield».
Inventor 1: «Starfield» didn't go so overwhelmingly.
Inventor 2: Okay, bad example, but «Starfield» would be a great colour name. Nobody can imagine what it means. It can mean anything and nothing.
Inventor 1: Good idea. We could sell it under the table to Cupertino.
Inventor 2: Top. So then «Lunar White»?
Inventor 1: No, it remains «White». It says so on the product packaging. We stand out from the colour mafia crowd. Our products remain simply «black» and «white».
Inventor 2: Edgy. And next year we will finally release....
The connection breaks down here. Apparently our Spy Mouse was roasted by a jet of hot steam from a faulty pipe.
Header image: Valve
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