Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

Re:Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 by xienze on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:17PM (#48299996)

> Memory used to be worth more than gold by weight, and still every stick was sold.

And right before that, was it dirt cheap? No? Slightly different scenario then.

> GPUs, flight controllers, etc went sky high during the pandemic and we still buy them today.

They're even more now...

> Hard drives got way more expensive during flooding, and we still have local storage.

Nowhere near as expensive as they are now, nowhere near as high a jump in price in a short period of time as now. Plus, there was a defined end point of "flood over, back to normal." There is no "AI data center build out over, back to normal" in sight.

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Re:Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 by jauntywundrkind on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:45PM (#48300395)

I'm so unsure why someone was working so hard to wedge such doubt amid such clearness. Yes, well said, very core clear differences you raise, my thanks.

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