Unfortunately, given the current economy, its not suprising. With how much prices have risen, the old pricing competed with and often beat out even used desktops.
Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US
Submitted 1 hour ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 10 minutes ago
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 27 minutes ago
$1130 CAD for the 512gb model.
I built my gaming desktop for that price and it has a 4070 super.
Next word generating companies have literally made personal computing unaffordable for the next decade (at least).
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
All this for stupid fucking anime profile pics
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
SM is going to cost like 1000+ isn’t it…
lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
At this point, try closer to $1200-$1500, and that’s for the BASE model.
nialv7@lemmy.world 56 minutes ago
We so cooked
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 53 minutes ago
SM?
Pyro@programming.dev 51 minutes ago
Steam Machine
lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Oof I mean I’m glad they are back in stock again but that stings. I do see valve being the only company that would lower them as soon as they are able though. Public shareholders wouldn’t let them if they were public.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Nah, that’s not true. All of these companies would absolutely love to charge less for the console up front so that they can get recurring payments out of you elsewhere. It was a regular occurrence for decades that console prices would drop dramatically over time.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Less of an issue with Valve. They don’t have as much of a need for a hardware loss leader since they earn from Steam regardless of which hardware it’s running on.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
Holy fuck. How is it even competitive at this price?
SparroHawc@piefed.world 23 minutes ago
The RAM and SSD have gotten that much more expensive to source. Anyone who sells a product with similar components either raises their price, or takes a loss.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 26 minutes ago
It isn’t.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
This timeline sucks.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Holy hell what a jump! Yeesh, I’m glad I got one in January, but there’s no way I’d be paying 1k for it.
ISolox@lemmy.world 21 minutes ago
Oof I can’t recommend a new one to anyone at that price. Fortunately there’s still a lot of used ones around where I live, but that’s a big old yikes.
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 56 minutes ago
I will never buy a new system again.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
It’ll be a few years of pain, but once the bubble pops, we can start to return to normalcy. Take good care of the hardware you have in the meantime.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 26 minutes ago
I don’t want to crush people’s optimism (I’m also envious of your viewpoint), but what makes you think any of this will pop and return to normalcy?
Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I wish I could muster the ability to give a fuck at this point. Between trumps bolocks and the us ai industry fucking everyone over.
Im kinda of you brought this on yourselves at this point
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Sure, but if the price is going up here, it’s the latest symptom of prices going up everywhere for this hobby.
Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yeh and that’s why im fucking pissed. The rest of the world is getting shit because of American internal bolocks
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 15 minutes ago
919,00€ for OLED 1TB model in Germany.
I have no hopes for Steam Machine price now…