They wrecked the economy so hard that game consoles are appreciating in value.

Daaaaaamn. If I didn't have one already, I would not consider buying it at that price anymore. And I got the cheaper 512 gb model.

Better buy the Steam controller quickly before AI companies decide TMR sticks are essential to feed the AI machine.

Steam Deck OLED is awesome. Fantastic screen, excellent controls, insane ergonomics, light for long play sessions... even now, with older internal hardware and lessening power versus new games, it's still the best stream-to-around-the-house device on the market, and it's not really close.

But I can't see it still being $789 / $949 USD awesome. My guess is that Valve has decided that they aren't going to run out of Steam Decks again and have priced these accordingly.

I'm just gonna go live in a cabin. Fuck this tech bullshit world.

I got a refurbished 512GB for $439 a year ago, that is nuts.

What's even available that's competitive? Legion Go 2 prices are absolutely bonkers, maybe the first gen at $849?

MS still had launch MSRP for the ROG Xbox Ally models.

Protecting my deck with my life...

Ouch, that's rough.

I mean, this is technically better than it just not being available. But those prices are hard to swallow, makes me really glad to already have mine. Really hope nothing happens to it.

Ouch. I don’t think they’re worth it at those prices, sadly.

At this point, I am doubting the Steam Machine will actually launch. Even on reveal, the value proposition was very questionable and entirely dependent on having an unrealistically low price. I expect Valve will announce "Yeah, never mind. We are just not going to launch the Steam Machine. It doesn't make sense anymore in this new economic climate".

One can just use off-the-shelf components to build their own small form factor (SFF) PC that has basically the same specs as a Steam Machine. Conversely, that is not something anyone can do for the Steam Frame, Steam Deck, or really even the Steam Controller. Even if most Steam hardware is priced absurdly high, someone could justify the price to themselves because the direct competition is just not there. But anyone can build a SFF PC that is equivalent to a Steam Machine. The only people who could justify an absurdly high price for a Steam Machine are the people who NEED a plug-and-play console-like system and can afford a high price. And that is just not a big market.

Isn't that more than 50% extra compared to when the OLED version came out, I think it was 2023?

doesn't make me hopeful for the frame price

Annnnd IT'S GONE

So glad I got mine on sale last year

I wish the old LCD models were still available, especially the 64GB model. We needed that more than ever.

I blame everyone except for Valve. Smart cars, AI, Smart TVs. Anything that has memory or SSDs. I remember when things got cheaper as they got older, not the other way around.

Yeah it sucks but imagine spending a good chunk of that on a Nintendo Switch that has built in planned obsolescence and will be a poorly supported brick in a couple of years limited to never surpass the potential the original Nintendo developers could see in the device at an architectural level and set into stone by the mass armadas of copyright weapons that Nintendo deploys.

Does the price difference matter as much when you see it in that light? You can always use your Steam Deck as a computer in any way you want to. You can load stuff onto it using the sd card.... the nonsense is astronomically less with the Steam Deck I just can't imagine thinking the Steam Deck wasn't worth it over the Switch when you actually think about the value either device brings to your life longterm. One is disposable, the other is not.