Valve, responsible for series like Half-Life and Portal, has today unveiled the Steam Deck OLED, a follow up to its original portable device with a longer-lasting battery, faster downloads and many other features. Speaking to The Washington Post, Valve product designer Greg Coomer mentioned how Nintendo paved the way with its own OLED handheld
“[The Switch OLED] definitely showed people that the fidelity of an OLED screen is just generally higher. It’s just a great product from Nintendo that makes a ton of customers around the world super happy.”
Valve apparently has a lot of Switch around its own offices, and while it apparently isn’t ready to reveal sales numbers just yet, the Steam Deck has obviously been successful enough for Valve to expand its business in this market.
The new Steam Deck OLED comes with a 7.4″ screen that’s 0.4 inches bigger than the previous one, with less bezel, and the system’s weight has also been reduced to around 640g. In contrast, the Switch OLED has a 7″ screen and with the Joy-Con attached it weights 420g.
Washington Post games reporter Gene Park, who has now had Valve’s new portable system for the last week, also showed off a side-by-side comparison of the Switch OLED alongside the Steam Deck OLED as well as PlayStation’s Portal device.
