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With the upcoming Steam Deck from Valve only (currently) coming in one colour, it's fun to imagine what it would look like if you could customize the casing colours - so let's try it out.

One of our readers Grady Vuckovic mentioned in our Discord Channel a little tool they made, which allows you to customize a few parts of a Steam Deck image and it actually works quite well. It's been fun to play around with possible colouring and I can't help but now actually want some official variants. Hopefully once the Steam Deck is out, perhaps we might see some fun skins to stick over it. It's a portable after-all, we want to show it off right?

Perhaps you want it to be bright and get some heads turning?

Or maybe a little like another handheld console we all know.

PC Gamer is one of a few who got to visit Valve recently, and it seems colour discussions are going on so maybe we will eventually see some. The main reason for it being in one colour right now is more of a "logistics thing" Valve said, as "Having a lot of SKUs in the market is just a lot more complicated".

Give it a go and show off in the comments your ideal colours for the Steam Deck.

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Cyril Aug 8, 2021
I tried with GOL colors, but...
Lestibournes Aug 8, 2021
Reddish Gold and Beige:
scaine Aug 8, 2021
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Love this tool, very cool.
Janitor Aug 8, 2021
A taste of the 90s.

Black text on light gray buttons would really finish it up nicely.


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const Aug 8, 2021
Wow, some of those schemes look amazing. Kind of states how well designed this machine really is.
Sil_el_mot Aug 8, 2021
Steelblue:
Maath Aug 8, 2021
Huh...doesn't work. I tried to make the bottom of the thumbsticks black.
BielFPs Aug 8, 2021

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const Aug 8, 2021
Imagine every colored Deck came with a fitted KDE color scheme :)
dubigrasu Aug 8, 2021
Not entirely on topic, but what would I like to see though is bigger touchpads, and exactly like this, without making the black bezel smaller:

The size of the current touchpads kinda worries me. In the reviews everyone was talking about the joysticks, not much about the pads. I would've love to hear an opinion from someone heavily accustomed with the pads on the Steam Controller, are the new pads big enough?
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