It looks like it may have leaked that Valve will start selling refurbished Steam Deck models for cheaper.

TL;DR: Steam briefly showed options to buy refurbished Steam Decks for the following prices:

  • 64gb - $319
  • 256gb - $419
  • 512gb - $519

The steam page has since been taken down, but will hopefully go live officially soon.

Edit: That was quick, refurbished units available now.

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
    216·
    1 year ago

    Meh, $500+ for what is basically a $350 laptop crammed into a handheld form factor is not exactly what I’d call “reasonable”.

    • Rossel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Can you point me to a $350 laptop with similar specs? And the form factor is the whole selling point, duh.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I, for one, would actually be fine with buying a Steam Deck at that price just so that way Steam/Valve have incentive to continue their work on Proton (their answer to try and get unsupported games working on Linux and their own official SteamOS).

      The trade-off of giving them incentive to work on Proton, which would help an estimated roughly 2.5 million “monthly active users” using Steam on Linux definitely seems reasonable to me at least.

    • lukini@beehaw.org
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah but I don’t want a laptop. Until people start making handhelds this good at that price (and there are competitors getting close) then the price seems fine.