After searching for a bit i find THIS article with all the announced sales dates. According to it there are still 3 main sale dates left:

  • Return of Steam Scream Fest (Halloween): October 26 - November 2 (additional details to come)
  • Autumn Sale: November 21 - 28 (major seasonal sale)
  • Winter Sale: December 21 - January 4, 2024 (major seasonal sale)

Anyone know if there are any concrete chance to have a discount on the console in these days?

  • Spiracle
    14•2 years ago

    1. Refurbished ones are just as good as fresh ones, and basically always “on sale” since their price is reduced.

    2. Valve seems to be moving towards a very likely Steam Deck Refresh. Very little is known about when or how this will happen. Based on previous comments and data-mining, the refresh will have the exact same amount of gaming-power. It may, however, have a better WiFi-chip, better screen, and stuff like that. Nothing is certain and if you want a Deck soon-ish, I wouldn’t recommend waiting for this.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      Got a 64GB refurb when they were in stock end of September, honestly I couldn’t tell it was a refurb. It looked like new, the only thing that might have given it away was the carrying case, had a few small smudges but I got a Tomtoc anyway so it didn’t matter anyway.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago
      1. Refurbished ones are just as good as fresh ones, and basically always “on sale” since their price is reduced.

      they are only worth it if you go for the 64gb sale price of the 512gb makes it a much better option than the refurb 512gb

      UK PRICE

      refurb £459 for 512GB

      vs the 20% sale off price of £455.20 brand new, Yes it’s not a huge money saving here but it’s still a brand new untouched no blemishes minty condition steamdeck for less than the refurb price, but a huge prove saving from a new one of £569 (£113.80) off the new price 👍

  • verysoft
    3•2 years ago

    Yes wait for a Steam sale. https://steamdb.info/sales/history is good for tracking them, although they are usually all the same dates every year, so not exactly unpredictable.

    They are clearing inventory of the current SKUs ready for the refreshed ones, so it’s highly likely it will be on sale again this month and/or during the Autumn sale in November.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    I would say wait for a sale, but easy for me to say since I already have my deck since over a year ago. If you’re strapped for cash or just working within a budget for the year, then yeah you can easily save at least 50 or more bucks on one. If money isn’t really an object and you got upcoming travel plans where you can capitalize on the steam deck’s mobility, then it’s worth it at current price too. I have easily spent over a grand on the steam deck from the actual unit (512 version at 650), 2tb SSD, 1tb SD card, case, dock, skins, back pad accessories, 1tb usb flash drive with usb c/usb a, etc.

    So all to say, if you like tinkering/making it your own, and are trying not to blow out your budget entirely, may be worth to save. I am glad I got the anti glare screen as I’m still not up for replacing the screen myself, but if the lowest model had the same screen, would have gotten that one and just swapped the SSD.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    If you’re willing to take it apart, you can save some money by buying the 64GB one and swapping out the SSD.

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    It looks like this year they’ve had a 10% discount off the cheapest model. So that’s ~$40 off. I think it’s worth waiting the 9 days for the Halloween sale to see. If not, I’d be very surprised if it’s not on sale for Autumn. I would be surprised if any of these sales have a deeper discount than any of this year’s earlier sales though.

    If you plan on replacing the SSD, those will probably go on sale around Black Friday. It would kind of be a pain to settle in with the Deck and get everything set up and installed how you like just to replace the SSD a month later.

    • ekZeppOPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      My idea is to get the console, get a 250gb microsd and, eventually, wait summer sales x a ssd.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 years ago

    Check the second hand market. That’s how I got a 2TB one (with hub and Xbox Wireless controller) for less than what the 256GB one costs new and out of the sales period.