Comment on Valve discontinues the entry-level Steam Deck, considerably raising the starting price
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A tenner says this is due to the component price inflation we’re in the middle of
It makes some sense, the parts cost on the lower priced models could be a lot more painful.
I’m not gonna try to do a proper estimate on build prices on the Steam Deck, but the price of 16GB of DDR5 RAM was around $40 or even less a year ago and now we’re looking at $140. If that’s comparable here, that makes the margin look a lot rougher.
Nah, they were gonna phase it out even before the price hike was a thing.
I would imagine it has more to do with the OLED version being way more popular. I just wish the OLED had been out when I bought my Deck. no point buying it again just for the upgrade, but I would have gladly dropped more for the better screen when I first bought it.
Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I honestly thought they were selling stock given how low the price was. No idea they were still making them.