Gregory's ServerThe craziest thing to me about the new Steam Deck OLED is Valve made the device better with a bigger battery, bigger storage, new OLED HDR screen, bigger screen, higher refresh rate and didn't keep the price the same, they actually lowered it.
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 @ralen @BrodieOnLinux I wonder what the price of other hand helds would be if they didn't come with windows @BrodieOnLinux Still though it makes me pretty excited that such a thing exists. As for the price, I'm fairly certain that it is either a loss leader, or doesn't make much (if any) profit. @enthusiast101 @BrodieOnLinux it only needs to run a 800p screen. So it doesn't need as much raw specs as a console @BrodieOnLinux Its amazing. If I had to guess they probably found out they were vastly miscalculating how much money they would get from people buying games in their old models prices, which is probably why they were so comfortable putting the deck on sale every major sale. @Nouvanity The base 64GB even existing feels like a product of hardware shortages rather than something they had actually wanted to make. 64GB on a gaming device is excessively low in 2023  @BrodieOnLinux @Nouvanity you dont seem to understand that 64GB is something you can turn into a 512 GB model in under 10 minutes for much less than what the 512GB model is worth @boilingsteam @Nouvanity You don't seem to understand the difference is more than just the bigger storage, now it's a new screen bigger screen, the bigger storage, a bigger battery, a smaller process node CPU, a new wifi standard and a better carrying case. @BrodieOnLinux @boilingsteam @Nouvanity well, the 256GB *is* just bigger storage, I think. Not that it's a bad thing, you're getting a straight storage upgrade for the same price. @dlove67 @boilingsteam @Nouvanity The 256GB model is the same as the original it's just now priced like the 64GB model, the 512GB and 1TB model have the improvements @BrodieOnLinux @Nouvanity you are just oblivious to the fact that they stopped making a low tier device for the OLED version, and it's probable that the LCD version will disappear as they will stop making it @boilingsteam @Nouvanity They stopped making a low tier device and then made the higher tier device cheaper, I'm failing to see the problem lol @BrodieOnLinux @Nouvanity the problem is that the low tier pricing answered a market need which is not answered anymore when you stop making it @boilingsteam There is though, the 64GB model got deleted and replaced with the 256GB model |
I'm seething.