Submitted 3 weeks ago by Valuy@lemmy.zip to games@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz725d5d1x7o
Bought the 1 TB as soon as the OLED version released. So glad i did that, it is a fun little machine, but the new price point is rough.
I also bought a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM back in september. Just checked the current price on that, and it has increased by almost 250% from the same retailer. Holy shit.
Blaming. If you sell freshly printed paper books and the price of paper rise up overnight. Is your fault for the rising of the prices?
I mean they were out of stock for weeks, presumably waiting on manufacturing new devices, which are now more expensive than when they were first released, it’s not like they were sitting on a ton in a warehouse or something.
Depends…does the bookmaker have a superyacht? Are they a billionaire? Could they take less profit because they are not a public company? Could they raise the price by less and still be profitable?
Well yes of course they could but why should they? I also think it’s hilarious that people acknowledge that we live in a capitalist society, and then get upset when the realities of that society hit them.
If you want to go seize the means of production I won’t stop you, but otherwise stop whining about increasing production costs been passed on to the user.
Hmmm, my guess is that Valve is trying to keep onto their funds rather than sell at loss because they’re afraid of the lawsuits levied by other corpos, which are being weaponized against them.
Classic BBC headline trying to claim there’s more to the story than they’re actually is. They’re not blaming it on anything, they’re citing the reason.
Component prices have gone up because the AI industry is gobbling everything up, we already all know that. Sony have also increased the price of the PS5 so I don’t think there’s any conspiracy here
I have the LCD Deck, but tbh i’m fine with that. I plays the same games, and i have good power banks to get me over the day if needed even with the lower runtime (one of my power banks even has a solar cell integrated - it makes it bulkier, but it’s free extra charge!)
I have a LCD too and the battery is starting to show signs of ware. I was thinking of getting a OLED and giving the LCD to my son. But I have the deckmate and the bag, it works great for attaching and swapping power banks. You’re right though, depending on the bank it can get pretty bulky and heavy.
My Battery is still at 98%, but i use it mostly plugged in, so the battery has not seen many charge/discharge cycles yet. If the battery is going bad, i would recomment just going to iFixit and order a new one - the replacement really isn’t hard to do.
I had to replace the display and even that wasn’t really hard even when you have to take the thing apart down to the last screw when doing that.
You could always replace the battery. There’s guides and parts on iFixIt
I always wanted one of the white Steam Decks, but I have yet to be able to afford one regardless of color. Now it looks like I never will.
Even if you could afford it at this price, it’s simply not a good value.
I’m curious what exactly you mean; Like are you saying it’s just too expensive for what it is or too old or what?
Sometimes there are good deals at pawn stores. Not always, but it worth checking out if you have time.
Thanks! But $500 is still more than I can afford right now. I almost got one when they had the refurbished LCD model for like $280 or whatever it was but I couldn’t even swing that at the time.
Aaaaand, they sold out.
Before you say scalpers, you can get a new 512gb version for 699 on eBay right now which is cheaper than what valve was selling them for.
Reading the rest of this article, it’s crap journalism. About half of it is just rumors and speculation off of social media. Do better, BBC
I have a gaming laptop that I bought for 1000 bucks and I can stream to anywhere from it. With the controller and my cell phone I can play whatever games I want. Yeah I’ll pass with Steam deck.
Yeah and even though the Steam Deck seems as good as a handheld can be, my phone/iPad stream games with a lot less heat and noise. If you have a gaming rig already it seems like the logical choice to stream.
My issue with the gaming laptop is the massive brick needed to charge. My laptop has a 4070 and requires a 280w barrel jack charger to fully power it. The brick is about the same size as my steam deck lol since I travel for work I have to carry that laptop. Even better I use the same charger for my laptop and steam deck.
Does your gaming laptop have a large brick? How do you manage if so?
I mainly leave it in my office. I don’t take it with me. I stream it through my phone and tablet if I move around. Kinda like a desktop that can move around if needed.
I have a slim q charger for my laptop and it’s about the size of two phones stacked on top of each other. The factory brick is pretty slim too so I never really cared. It fit well in the bottom of my backpack.
Also many modern high end machines come with smaller GaN chargers. It’s mostly the cheaper models that come with the classic brick.
I’d pass too if I had a laptop that I could just bring places. Let alone the streaming thing.
The LCD deck was even cheaper, and this is the second OLED price hike as well, after having removed the cheaper LCD version.
I legit think they are hiking prices because they can’t bring down the cost of their other upcoming products. You can’t have a 300$ LCD steam deck next to a slightly better 1200$ steam box. At least it’s easy to blame someone else right now, no one will call it greedflation when steam does it.
I think you misunderstand the logistics of having multiple products on a line using the same hardware but different price points. First of all, Valve isn’t Nintendo. Despite them being very profitable and making a lot of money, they don’t have the power like Nintendo does to mass order special parts for their devices.
With the AI hardware apocalypse, the cost of everything surged, even for OEMs. So with that in mind, if you had an offering of multiple devices that use the same components but one is cheaper and may potentially lose you money, do you keep that, or just consolidate everything into a single product line? Valve didn’t remove the LCD because they didn’t want to sell a cheap product, hell they put the device on some amazing sales while it existed. They removed it because selling a $300 device while the cost to build that is almost the same price is pointless, and at the end of the day, the purpose of Valve is to make money.
The new price of deck OLEDs reflect the reality that even a billion dollar company can’t procure hardware contracts at a reasonable price. Even Nintendo is going to be raising switch 2 price and who knows if another hike to that will come later.
I assume that after this deck price hike, the steam machine is basically dead. If Valve does go through with the release, the cost will just be too high for what it is, and people would rather just buy a console at that price point.
The AI bubble is truly ruining the hardware industry, and I know it feels like an excuse right now, but Valve has no reason to be greedy. They already make enough money from the store, and the hardware that sold has always been fairly priced. Things are just truly fucked right now.
I think a price increase was inevitable but 300% between the cheapest model in the space of one year is hard to swallow. Any other company would be getting dragged through coals.
The funny thing is that the LCD is still listed on the site, even after they’ve made all these changes. And the “won’t be restocked” verbiage is gone. So I’m wondering if they’re going to restock those as well.
At that price point why not just get a gaming laptop?
Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Soulphite hikes their going rates by more than 50%, blames rising costs of everything.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I could barely afford your rates before the increase, and now I am expected to shell out more? Dirty pool, internet person…dirty pool.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s it, I’m just gonna pirate Soulphite
shweddy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well I guess my soulphite phun is over