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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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Maximo101 said:
Can someone please tell us all how a high demand for chips and memory makes the price go up? It's not clear...
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Are you being serious? Supply and Demand is shit you get taught in like, third grade.

It's like Pokemon cards, if a certain card is super desirable, and not everyone can get it, people are willing to spend more money to make sure that they get it, which makes the card more valuable. If that card gets reprinted, then a lot more copies of the card are out there, making it easier for people to get them, so the value of the card goes down.
 
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LanHikariDS said:
It's like Pokemon cards, if a certain card is super desirable, and not everyone can get it, people are willing to spend more money to make sure that they get it, which makes the card more valuable. If that card gets reprinted, then a lot more copies of the card are out there, making it easier for people to get them, so the value of the card goes down.
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It's a little different to that as the supply of Pokemon cards could easily be increased but they choose artificial scarcity instead. With chip production, the fabs take years to setup so there is basically a finite amount that can be made.
 
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subcon959 said:
It's a little different to that as the supply of Pokemon cards could easily be increased but they choose artificial scarcity instead. With chip production, the fabs take years to setup so there is basically a finite amount that can be made.
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No, you're right. It's not a perfect example, but it's easier to explain.
 
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Bladexdsl said:
thank fuck i upgraded my computer before all this shit started must have had a sixth sense about all this shit happening now :P
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I wish I had that sixth sense. I had thought about getting a mini PC in case my NAS kicked the bucket (Synology DS918+) because right now, that NAS handles my media server and other things. But it can only do so much. At the very least, I've got back-up drives before HDDs really began to increase in price, in case the drives in that NAS start to die (one of them is at least at 7 years on-time).
 

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