The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%
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#2RAMpocalypse are making computing pricey again. This is a complete rollback. Now I am going to stick with my 3 year old a little bit longer
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#3Well, it's quite old hardware now too, I'm sure that has a big effect.
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#4But will Nintendo and the like be able to retain pricing for much longer? Of course they have better contracts but for how long?
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#5Well, it's quite old hardware now too, I'm sure that has a big effect.
Consoles generally have older hardware. The attraction is convenience, not power.
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#6I wish I had a product whose 'near-total collapse' meant I was 'only' selling two thousand of them a week
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#7Something desperately needs to pop the AI bubble.
There's plenty of value to be generated with all of these other applications of computer hardware, value that could be generated much sooner than the horizon over which GenAI expects to see its first dollar of profit.
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#8I wish I had a product whose 'near-total collapse' meant I was 'only' selling two thousand of them a week
Things are relative.
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#9I think people really underestimate the brand loyalty that valve has. They have consistently shown for 25+ years to strive for quality and I know I’m unlikely to get a headache if I purchase from them.
Their hardware is really top notch, I have used a steam deck LCD for years and it was not until very recently that I had a single issue with a button that was easily fixable.
Probably the purchases went down due to some people buying the steam machine. I’m surprised the article doesn’t mention that.
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#10If competitors are not raising prices dramatically, then they're eating that loss. Steam should follow suit—at least with something like a loss-leader model.
When I rewrote/released an old shareware game to Steam some years ago I made just enough money to buy a Steam Deck. Since then OLED Decks came out and I'm jealous.
(With the prices of the new Steam Decks, I'm wondering now if there is instead a way to retrofit my old Deck with an OLED…)