Valve announced that the OLED version of the Steam Deck has increased in price significantly, after being out of stock for months. Well, it’s back in stock, but you have to pay Very There are still more to get one.
The 512GB version, which was previously priced at $549, is now $789. Meanwhile, the 1TB variant has gone from $649 to $949. This is one of the largest price increases ever seen for gaming hardware, due to the ongoing global memory shortage (also known as Ramageddon). Everything To get more expensive in technology.
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For context, recent PlayStation 5 price increases have pushed that device $150 to $200 more than it cost at launch. Meanwhile, the price of the Nintendo Switch 2 (after less than a year on the market) increased by $50 earlier this month. Valve’s price increases are larger than those for the Steam Deck OLED, though they’re still less than the roughly $700 price increase that Dell has implemented on some of its XPS laptops.
As IGN reported, you can do A refurbished model can still be found for slightly less than that. The refurbished 512GB and 1TB OLED models are now $629 and $759, respectively. Meanwhile, the discontinued LCD Steam Deck (which is largely the same device with a lower-quality display) can still be refurbished for as little as $279, but that’s only with 64GB of storage.
It needs to be emphasized that, before the AI arms race that was driving up memory costs, rising hardware prices were the norm. Below For longer periods of time. Now, game consoles are the cheapest at launch. Feels backward, doesn’t it?
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