It obviously doesn’t have the smooth OS experience of Steam OS, but what it lacks in presentation, it makes up for with performance and compatibility.Īyn is a name that doesn’t come up as often in the conversation about Steam Deck alternatives as the Aya Neo, but it should.
Packing an AMD Ryzen 7 5825U CPU with 16GB RAM and 1TB of onboard storage, the Aya Neo Next starts at just over $AU1,300. However, as a cloud streaming device, it is worth its weight in gold. We’d recommend dropping the settings down and becoming comfortable with playing older games on it if you want to run anything natively and still get decent battery life out of it. The Aya Neo Next and the Aya Neo Next Pro are the company’s most powerful units - lightweight and portable enough to travel with you and gutsy enough to run some decent games, but that comes with a caveat. Over the last few years, Aya Neo has led a serious push to become the next biggest name in portable gaming - or at least, the most visible - particularly in territories that Valve has overlooked for Steam Deck launches. Image: Aya Neo, Kotaku Australia Aya Neo Next For those of you sick to death of waiting for Valve to get its arse in gear and officially launch the Steam Deck in Australia, we’ve put together a short list of potential Steam Deck alternatives that you can get in Australia (or at least buy locally from the official stockist) and some that even rival the Steam Deck for power and performance.
We’ll theorise wildly about why they definitely hate us and wish us all a lifetime of suffering.Īnd a few of us will go on the hunt for alternatives. We’ll badger the company responsible online until they deign to respond to our demands. We’ll take a punt on a warranty-free grey import, even know we know the risks. We come up with convoluted ways to import those products from the US. When our globally remote location keeps us at arm’s length from the products we want, we figure something out. Australian gamers, of course, are nothing if not industrious. In the period since, Australians have waited (sometimes impatiently) for news of a local release date. I think it’s time we start talking about Steam Deck alternatives.Īt the time of this writing, it has been 396 days since the Steam Deck launched in the United States on February 25, 2022. You know what, I’m sick of waiting for Valve to remember Australia exists. BTW - prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. At Kotaku, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too.
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