Valve is worried! Steam Deck Update

WHITE DECK. I made this video for a sponsor but the package got lost so it’s a day or two late. thank you.
00:00 – Intro
00:25 – NO DECK 2!
08:45 – Valve is “Extremely Aware”
11:57 – Phil Spencer says buy a steam deck

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The White Steam Deck

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/24294106/valve-white-steam-deck

Nearly three years to the day after teasing the world with a white version of the Steam Deck, Valve has finally decided to release the normally black handheld gaming PC in that color too. The limited-edition white model is going on sale for $679 on November 18th at 3PM PT / 6PM ET, everywhere the handheld is sold, including Australia and the various regions of Asia served by Komodo.

It’s no different on the inside than a normal model, says Valve:

Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White has all the same specs as the Steam Deck OLED 1TB model, but in white and grey. It also comes with an exclusive white carrying case and white microfiber cleaning cloth.

Since the 1TB OLED normally costs $649, you’re effectively paying $30 for the color. Valve says it’s allocated stock proportionally across each region, but once it’s sold out, it won’t be making any more.

Valve is “Extremely Aware” about the anti cheat / launcher issue

https://80.lv/articles/valve-is-extremely-aware-of-games-not-supporting-steam-deck-due-to-anti-cheats/

In a recent interview to AUTOMATON, Valve’s Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang and programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that the company knows about the lack of support and is “monitoring the trend of games requiring kernel-level access” at the moment. Moreover, Valve has partnered with Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye in the past “to make it easy for developers to enable support for Steam Deck.”

“We have been monitoring the trend of games requiring kernel-level access for their anti-cheat technologies and not supporting Steam Deck as a result. We are extremely aware of the critical need for countermeasures against cheating in online games, but are also considering options carefully. Some of the approaches popular now in the industry might present problematic trade-offs for the end-user in the longer term,” Griffais said.

Xbox Handheld is a Few Years Out – Buy a Deck

https://www.pcguide.com/news/planned-xbox-handheld-is-still-a-few-years-out-so-we-might-get-to-see-it-contend-with-the-steam-deck-2/

No dates have been confirmed. However, Spencer, in an interview with Bloomberg, admits the “expectation is that we would do something” but any kind of physical device is “a few years out” and the team is working on improving the Xbox app to improve functionality on existing handhelds. We’ve already seen some improvements to Windows handhelds lately such as a Game Bar makeover and new gamepad keyboard.

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