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The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours (www.ign.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that's a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold out.

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[–] 5 points 5 months ago

Every Steam Deck has 16GB LPDDR5-6400. I'll use regular DDR5-6400 as a stand-in. In 2 years, that's gone from $100 to $300. So, +$200 in memory costs.

The cheapest 1TB M.2-2230 has gone from $70 to $170. So +$100 for the highest-tier OLED. (512GB M.2s are harder to find history on.. but they also seem to have gone up about $100.)

So, the RAM & Storage in a Steam Deck now cost another $300. (Yes, I realize the components are probably cheaper for Valve. But it just puts the prices into perspective.)

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