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- craftrabbit@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
Hopefully they’ll be able to release half-life 3 at a regular price when the time comes
5 hoursdamn shame. the Deck remains a wonderful device that’s plenty powerful for the vast, vast majority of games out there.
I am so damn glad I got the special smoky translucent 1tb OLED when I did. It’s served me and my husband very well for gaming and media PC duties, and if push comes to shove I could sell it for more than I bought it for.
I don’t envy anyone looking to buy into PC gaming right now, though, that’s for damn sure.
- mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
My only regret was not getting the white special edition one, but my OLED is fantastic. Especially with the Satisfye grip. Endless comfort playing slay the spire and Pokemon ROMs.
I got my LCD Steam Deck in April 2025 for $400 in reaction to Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal being so terrible at the time. Times change. Valve charging $300 more for the SD spooked me and I got a Switch 2 while it’s still $450. I figured I won’t getting any more gaming hardware for a long time, so I might as well get the last decently affordable console for the foreseeable future. In retrospect, getting that SD was the best timed gaming purchase I ever made.
I’m going to hold off purchasing gaming hardware for as long as possible, the market is simply ridiculous right now.
During the height of the crypto boom, I couldn’t have afforded my own gaming PC that I built ~4 years earlier. Hardware prices have been such madness lately.
- atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish20 hours
I had been waiting to get one until I could afford it… fuck me right?
So glad I bought my Deck OLED back in
20222023. Might be my first, last and only gaming rig at this point.- filister@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
It doesn’t help that the hardware is also quite dated. If they release a more powerful version this at least would justify the price increase to some point, but with the current HW, it is a hard no for me.
- Mac@mander.xyzEnglish20 hours
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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish23 hours
Mark Twain actually COULD have said it.
Nintendo existed during his lifetime.
Also, Nintendo still made playing cards as late as the 1980s (for the Japanese market). Kind of crazy to think that they’re arguably more experienced at playing cards.
That’s cool, I hadn’t thought to check.
And they sell boards and pieces for Shogi and Go, apparently.
Not really surprising, if the price goes up for an old device. Its not like consoles that the Steam Deck would be the only way to play PC and Steam games, let alone all the competition on the market for handheld PC devices. On top of it, the availability wasn’t guaranteed either.
It is what it is.
To be fair the Steam Defck being pumped in price puts it on the level of a Ally X, which has better hardware, and I suspect most who wanted a Deck are capable of installing their own OS on better hardware for the same price…
Plus a 2280 slot so if SSD prices are ever sane again you can drop 8TB + 2TB on a sd card in it instead of the horrible overpriced tiny storage slot Valve used. To be fair ASUS did the same with the Flow, and the original Ally, but enough people complained they changed it for the new model.
- Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish13 hours
If the Ally X hasn’t increased in price it’s because they’re burning stock. The RAM price increase will hit them too so they will inevitably go up in price or stop selling.
Plus, the Ally doesn’t have trackpads and doesn’t officially support SteamOS, and I suspect the opposite, i.e. the majority of people who buy a Steam Deck don’t want to install their own OS.
- creamfresh@lemmy.worldEnglish17 hours
Unfortunately, the Ally X doesnt have trackpads which is must have for games like strategy and point&click. The lack of trackpads in this hardware category is astounding, actually.
- mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish23 hours
As someone with the Steam Deck OLED and a Nintendo switch 2 with the LCD screen, I couldn’t imagine paying Ally X prices for an LCD screen.
Deck OLED screen is far and away the best option and I got it for sub $700 back when it launched.
NS2 is incredible piece of kit for the price, and the best way to play any Nintendo exclusives… but I’d rather play any multiplat games on deck OLED.
- 16 hours
The Steam Deck should already have been undesirable compared to the more capable rivals that have launched since. The OLED has a brilliant screen but the whole package is just far too bulky in my opinion. I bought a 1TB OLED Deck at the start of the year and returned it immediately and bought a used ROG Ally for half the price.
The more capable rivals were massively more expensive in my opinion, even with the steam deck being way more underpowered, it was still more valuable on a price per performance level.
