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Valve discontinues the entry-level Steam Deck, considerably raising the starting price (www.neowin.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@lemmy.zip

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When Valve announced the Steam Deck back in 2021, it attached an attractive $399 price tag to the handheld gaming device's starting configuration. While this edition has gone through some changes since then, like upgrading the 64GB storage from eMMC to 256GB of NVMe, the price has remained the same. However, Valve is finally letting go of this cheapest model.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

A tenner says this is due to the component price inflation we're in the middle of

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

I honestly thought they were selling stock given how low the price was. No idea they were still making them.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

It makes some sense, the parts cost on the lower priced models could be a lot more painful.

I'm not gonna try to do a proper estimate on build prices on the Steam Deck, but the price of 16GB of DDR5 RAM was around $40 or even less a year ago and now we're looking at $140. If that's comparable here, that makes the margin look a lot rougher.

[–] lath@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

Nah, they were gonna phase it out even before the price hike was a thing.