The Best Aussie Gaming and Tech Gifts to Give This Holiday 2023
The holiday season has begun in earnest, and the clock is ticking on your gift-giving obligations. While I'm sure the list for what you want rolls out the door and down the street, coming up with ideas for others is tough. That's where I come in, with my personal picks and a rock-solid who's-who of the hardware, peripherals, and games that every gamer worth their thumbs wants.
Aside from the inescapable minefields that are always going to be individual genre tastes and preferred controller colours, you really can't go wrong with what's presented below. Worst-case scenario: gravitate to those gift card options and slap them into an amusing pop-up and/or scratch 'n' sniff bit of foldable cardboard. People who don't appreciate those probably don't deserve presents in the first place.
Before we get into the usual fare, here's some stuff that's burning Rudolph nose bright on my radar.
This was the year where I saw an explosion in not only Steam Deck (grey) import sales but also the official launches of some third-party competitors to Valve's venerable handheld. What they all have in common: base models with humble storage that can be cost-effectively supersized with your choice of a 2230-S2 M.2 form factor SSD.
That being said, my choice is Seagate's FireCuda 520N SSD as the perfect storage upgrade for the aforementioned PC handhelds, plus it'll work like a charm in a Microsoft Surface, your laptop, and a ton of other compact devices. Better yet, it offers an impressive read/write speed of up to 5,000 MB/s for the 2TB capacity and up to 4,800 MB/s for the 1TB model.
If you have an artistic bend or the simple desire to have an incredibly well-built, ultra-portable second screen for on-the-go work, welcome to the Espresso range of
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