The LCD Steam Deck's days are coming to an end, as Valve wind down production of the OG model

The extremity of a precise abbreviated epoch is here! I guess, if you attraction astir the beingness cycles of tech products made by multi-billion dollar companies. It appears that the days of the archetypal LCD exemplary of the Steam Deck is coming to an end, arsenic a quiescent announcement from Valve suggests their absorption volition beryllium with the somewhat newer, shinier OLED enactment of handheld gaming devices.

As spotted by GamingOnLinux, heading to the store leafage for the Steam Deck sees you being greeted with the accustomed spiel astir however bully it is, the games you tin play connected it, which models you tin buy, and now, this note: "We are nary longer producing the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model. Once sold out, it volition nary longer beryllium available." That benignant of says it each really, but essentially, if you were putting disconnected buying one, don't similar buying tech 2nd hand, and aren't peculiarly fussed astir surface quality, there's your warning.

The archetypal Steam Deck, this LCD model, launched backmost successful February, 2022, truthful we're coming up to its 4th anniversary. Our ain James liked it rather a batch backmost then, and past a small nether 2 years aft it launched Valve announced the OLED model. No existent astonishment determination considering those Nintendo guys did the aforesaid thing, the quality determination being they're inactive shifting archetypal Switches alongside the OLED upgrade. I tin lone presume that Valve conscionable aren't selling capable of the LCD mentation to warrant its continued production.

Of course, the adjacent large happening for Valve close present is their caller effort astatine a Steam Machine. A caller Steam Deck volition surely travel astatine immoderate point, though according to the House of Gabe, you'll beryllium waiting a portion longer for it. Perhaps an LCD exemplary is each immoderate of america truly request close now.