Valve Released A Video Of Disassembling The Steam Deck

Valve has released an official video of how the handheld gaming computer Steam Deck is opened, shortly before it reaches its customers. Before diving into the disassembly though, the company unless you’re sure you know what you’re doing It took about a minute to warn you not to open your Steam Deck.

A Valve representative begins the video with these words: “Even though this is your computer and you have the right to open it and do whatever you want, as Valve We do not recommend that you open it. The Steam Deck is a very tightly designed system and the components have been carefully selected for this product with its special structure, so it is not designed to be user-modifiable.”

Valve says spare parts support will be available

In the video, Valve shows how to swap two parts of the system. First, Valve shows how to replace control sticks. The company warns that these are completely private, but in the coming months “spare parts, control sticks, SSDs and possibly more” He says he will provide a resource for

After that, Valve shows how to remove the SSD; this may be useful for people who may have reserved the cheapest version with eMMC hard drive to upgrade on their own. Note that all versions of Steam Deck use an m.2 connector, including the version with the eMMC driver; therefore, if you are planning to make an exchange you reinstall the operating system and you will need to install all the games on your other drive.

Valve said the Steam Deck will start shipping in December, but initial reservations will quickly take off from virtual shelves. To have the opportunity to fulfill the order literally if you reserve one now by the second quarter of 2022 at the earliest You’ll have to wait.