Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
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Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#2It's wild that the OLED Deck is now the same price as the Ally X I bought to replace my own deck about 18 months ago.
Still incredibly worth it, IMO. The Deck is some of the most fabulous and exciting hardware I've seen out in the last decade, perhaps only trumped by the M-series Apple chips.
Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#3It's wild that the OLED Deck is now the same price as the Ally X I bought to replace my own deck about 18 months ago. Still incredibly worth it, IMO. The Deck is some of the most fabulous and exciting hardware I've seen out in the last decade, perhaps only trumped by the M-series Apple chips.
some people agreed. it sold out really fast.
Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#4"blaming rising costs" makes it sound like they're actually doing something shady.
It's not exactly a secret that memory and storage costs have gotten more expensive. It should not be a surprise when a piece of hardware that depends on those gets more expensive too.
Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#5It's wild that the OLED Deck is now the same price as the Ally X I bought to replace my own deck about 18 months ago. Still incredibly worth it, IMO. The Deck is some of the most fabulous and exciting hardware I've seen out in the last decade, perhaps only trumped by the M-series Apple chips.
some people agreed. it sold out really fast.
For people who have a steam library, it's an incredible value for money. When I bought mine, I basically not only had a mobile gaming option, but a nice one, and one that already had access to 70% of my substantial Steam Library, with many developers promising Deck-optimized settings and such.
It's genuinely great hardware and a great experience. So much so (and because Windows is such a shitpile) I actually moved my Ally to SteamOS too. No regrets.
Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#6I love my Steam Deck aside from the quality control issues I ran into, one of which required an RMA. It's really hard to justify $1000 for it when the Switch 2 is $450 (soon $500).
I do think there's a bright future for PC handhelds, especially when (not if) ARM processors can be utilized. I'm less sure about that if prices keep rising since that quickly becomes the difference between niche hobbyist device and mainstream gaming portable.
Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#7It's wild that the OLED Deck is now the same price as the Ally X I bought to replace my own deck about 18 months ago. Still incredibly worth it, IMO. The Deck is some of the most fabulous and exciting hardware I've seen out in the last decade, perhaps only trumped by the M-series Apple chips.
I bought one last year and I love it, it really is a well designed and lovely system to use. Here's hoping the price hike doesn't kill it.
Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#8apparently not high enough. already OOS.
Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#9I have seen some thoughts via comments on this news on other platforms and the prevailing kneejerk response to this is somehow that Valve is bad at managing their supply chain as opposed to being one of the last hardware manufacturers to raise prices in the gaming space. The Ally family, while faster, launched at the higher end, Sony raised the cost of the PlayStation, Microsoft with the Xbox, and even Nintendo. All to say, I think this is a bummer but also believe that Valve deserves some credit for having navigated the market as best they could before raise the price.
Whether the hardware is worth the price hike is a different question all together. Even further, the question is what this may mean for the other hardware products that they have still in the pipeline.
Re: Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
#10I love my Steam Deck aside from the quality control issues I ran into, one of which required an RMA. It's really hard to justify $1000 for it when the Switch 2 is $450 (soon $500). I do think there's a bright future for PC handhelds, especially when (not if) ARM processors can be utilized. I'm less sure about that if prices keep rising since that quickly becomes the difference between niche hobbyist device and mainst…
> I do think there's a bright future for PC handhelds
Maybe if RAM prices go down and hardware becomes affordable again.