Steam Deck OLED 512GB: Now $789 USD; CAD 1,129; EUR 779; GBP 649; AUD 1,199; PLN 3,279
Steam Deck OLED 1TB: Now $949 USD; CAD 1,349; EUR 919; GBP 779; AUD 1,429; PLN 3,879
Steam Deck OLED is awesome. Fantastic screen, excellent controls, insane ergonomics, light for long play sessions… even now, with older internal hardware and lessening power versus new games, it’s still the best stream-to-around-the-house device on the market, and it’s not really close.
But I can’t see it still being $789 / $949 USD awesome. My guess is that Valve has decided that they aren’t going to run out of Steam Decks again and have priced these accordingly.
Ouch, that’s rough.
I mean, this is technically better than it just not being available. But those prices are hard to swallow, makes me really glad to already have mine. Really hope nothing happens to it.
I got a refurbished 512GB for $439 a year ago, that is nuts.
What’s even available that’s competitive? Legion Go 2 prices are absolutely bonkers, maybe the first gen at $849?
MS still had launch MSRP for the ROG Xbox Ally models.
Protecting my deck with my life…
I’m just gonna go live in a cabin. Fuck this tech bullshit world.
Rough. Unfortunately Valve can’t shake the RAM or SSD shortage.
Ouch. I don’t think they’re worth it at those prices, sadly.
Yeah it sucks but imagine spending a good chunk of that on a Nintendo Switch that has built in planned obsolescence and will be a poorly supported brick in a couple of years limited to never surpass the potential the original Nintendo developers could see in the device at an architectural level and set into stone by the mass armadas of copyright weapons that Nintendo deploys.
Does the price difference matter as much when you see it in that light? You can always use your Steam Deck as a computer in any way you want to. You can load stuff onto it using the sd card… the nonsense is astronomically less with the Steam Deck I just can’t imagine thinking the Steam Deck wasn’t worth it over the Switch when you actually think about the value either device brings to your life longterm. One is disposable, the other is not.
Isn’t that more than 50% extra compared to when the OLED version came out, I think it was 2023?
I bought my 1TB OLED for 679 euros end of 2024. So at least for that is 35% price increase.
Considering the increase in price, that turned out to be a very good deal. 👍
I wish the old LCD models were still available, especially the 64GB model. We needed that more than ever.
