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Steam Deck gets a major price bump, more than 40% increase for US buyers

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With very little in the way of announcement, Valve has today increased the price of the Steam Deck but some fairly considerable margins. Both of the available models, the 512GB and 1TB OLED systems, have seen an increase. You can find an overview of these changes below:
  • 512GB OLED
    • UK: £479 ➜ £649 (35% Increase)
    • EU: €569 ➜ €779 (36% Increase)
    • US: $549 ➜ $789 (43% Increase)
  • 1TB OLED
    • UK: £569 ➜ £779 (36% Increase)
    • EU: €679 ➜ €919 (35% Increase)
    • US: $649 ➜ $949 (46% Increase)
Unlike the recently announced changes to the cost of the Switch 2, these prices have already come into effect, delivering a serious blow to the value the Steam Deck previously offered. With the Steam Machine still on the docket for this year, it remains to be seen just how expensive it will end up being.

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I guess I should thank Nintendo for having such a horrible Switch 2 reveal that it made me get a Steam Deck in 2025. Seems like a damn steal now.

EDIT: And the RAMpocalypse pricing has me serious considering getting a Switch 2 before the price hike in Sept., since it's very likely there will be no more affordable consoles for a long time after this and I know there will be at least a few Nintendo games I'll want to play on it in its lifetime.

Nintendo: “You couldn't live with AI's failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me."

EDIT 2: Bit the bullet bill and got a Switch 2 and Bananza, the only exclusive I'm interested in so far. It's really, really good, so no regrets there, but here's hoping Nintendo releases some games in genres I like that are better quality than their 7/10 offerings of late. The rumored Ocarina of Time remake sounds interesting...
 
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Scarlet said:
If older games and emulation are your aim, I'd suggest looking into an Android handheld. Something with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or newer would easily handle emulation up to Switch, and can also run PC games via apps like GameNative. You'll likely see better battery life from decent handhelds when compared to what an x86 system could offer.
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I got an AYN Thor Max, and it does well. Running PC games via those emulation/compatibility layers will reduce their performance, and various other software is still not quite mature. It's nice to be able to play DS, 3DS, and even some Wii U games on it with its 2 screens, and I've been tinkering with a beta version of GCast for local low-latency streaming to the TV.

I am waiting for Valve to have a more direct approach to Steam on ARM devices. Right now, they have an official ARM64 version of Steam for Linux.
 
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Noctosphere said:
Wow, all that bashing... Gabe always did what's best for gamers, and now, because he made one move that's disappointing, you all start bashing Gabe and the Steam Deck. That's the typical behaviour of toxic customers.
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Nobody in this thread is even bashing Valve that I can tell, if anything, people are just putting the blame on the same excuse that every corpo performing price hikes on tech products, not even in the same league of people claiming greed like when Nintendo announced a future price hike with plenty of time to prepare for it or the comparative groan and acceptance when Sony did so with days warning, even when both used the same excuse of AI and RAM jacking up prices.

If anything, the people who were bashing Nintendo and Sony for price hiking that are now bashing Valve for this are the least hypocritical.
 
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Doesn't have to take "Gamers Nexus" to see that there's a concerted effort with AI that is steadily making home-owned hardware irrelevant because it outprices what any normal consumer would go along with by scarcity.

And if we entered a time of economy chipmaking, where you pay the same price that a 2019 PC would cost but get a PS2, and developers actually started topping out graphics to a PS2 Spec profile (which would be fucking awesome, let's all agree) I bet the "AI Industry" would just see that as a problem with their "rent everything" mindset, and find some way to ruin that too.

This is all happening by design, people. It's not just "simple economics" or "a phase that passes over". They need us to not be able to actually own stuff, in order to create "value" artificially around services that depend on the datacenters that they are mass-constructing worldwide.
 
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Sonic Angel Knight said:
How long do we need before we start to see the economy get better? all I get from this is.

"Gaming is no longer a hobby." It's now being treated as premium perk that if we want to afford, might make most people's minimum wages faint from.
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Almost none of our current representatives will even admit we're in a recession to begin with, so it's not going to get better any time soon. It's not just gaming either, they're making all forms of entertainment more expensive before they slopify them.
 
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Maybe it is an out of stock issue but buying the cheapest oled version costs just slightly below 1000€ in my country. A bug or it is a money duplication glitch. idk what to say anymore.
 

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