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I wish they would sell the Steam Deck in Australia. Does anyone know whether you can buy one overseas and use it anyway?
by climb_stealth 4y ago
I wish they would sell the Steam Deck in Australia. Does anyone know whether you can buy one overseas and use it anyway?
- SXX 4y agoBasically it's normal PC so you can even just install Windows there (but it will degrade overall experience). So there is absolutely no lock-ins and you can use hardware any way you like.
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- climb_stealth 4y agoThat makes sense from a hardware point of view. I was wondering whether there would be issues using a Steam account from an unsupported country. It requires a Steam account in a supported country to order. But after receiving it, can you log in to an account from a different country? Technically it should be doable. But there might be some policy that stops it from working.
- 91edec 4y agoYou can buy a Steam deck from any country and use your account, the deck isn't account locked. For example my friend bought a deck in the UK, moved to America and changed his region then came back to pick it up. We were both able to log into the device UK & US.
- SXX 4y agoI didn't manage to get one myself, but friend of mine use Steamdeck he ordered through UK in Turkey just fine. Obviously you can't buy one in Turkey.
- jackvalentine 4y agoYes, I got mine from an eBay reseller shipped to Australia for a bit of a markup and it works fine - only ‘foreign’ thing I noticed was on the KDE desktop the date format was american which is obviously a single setting change and you’re done.