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Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 10 hours ago by user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Steam Deck OLED 512GB: Now $789 USD; CAD 1,129; EUR 779; GBP 649; AUD 1,199; PLN 3,279

Steam Deck OLED 1TB: Now $949 USD; CAD 1,349; EUR 919; GBP 779; AUD 1,429; PLN 3,879

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[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The big costs are memory, that affects ram and SSDs. Not having a screen is not going to lower the price much.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Not having a screen is not going to lower the price much.

Off course not having a screen will lower the price much, especially if we talk about OLED. It does not affect the price as much as memory, but it helps not having it. And that is not even the only thing. Yes, the Steam Machine has some other stuff going on over the Steam Deck, like 8GB of additional VRAM (oof) and bigger and better CPU. I am aware of that and that was not my point. I was talking about all the other non memory stuff, that combined still has impact on the price.

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I was saying that it will not offset the price increase from memory related expenses.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I wasn't arguing that? I feel like there is some disconnect in our discussion?

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

The conversation so far has been (paraphrasing) ...

Lemmchen: "Wow steam machines are gonna be expensive", on a thread specifically about a massive price hike on Steam Decks (due to memory pricing)
You: "Well maybe not, machines won't have OLED screens, battery, and optional controller"
Femtek: "yeah but those things aren't why steam Decks are having this huge price hike. They are going up because of memory" memory is a shared component between Decks and machines.
You: "yes, those things will impact the price, but these other things that the machine won't have will also impact the price."
Femtek: "not by the same amount"
You: "I wasn't arguing that"

What point were you trying to make if not that having no screen/optional controller would offset the increased memory prices?

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 hours ago

Ahh, I see. Sorry about that.