A enjoyable Valve video showcases among the highlights from the Steam Deck’s first yr.
Valve is celebrating the first year of official availability for the Steam Deck with the {hardware}’s first-ever official sale. These seeking to purchase Valve’s transportable {hardware} can get a unit for 10 percent off till March 23 as a part of Steam’s common spring software program sale.
Within the US, that interprets to the next value reductions for the varied Steam Deck configurations:
- 64GB eMMC:
$399.00all the way down to $359.10 - 256GB NVMe:
$529.00all the way down to $476.10 - 512GB NVMe:
$649.00all the way down to $584.10
Even a short lived value drop would have been exhausting to image for the Steam Deck only a few months in the past, when the {hardware} was nonetheless having fun with a months-long run atop Steam’s top-sellers checklist and Valve was nonetheless struggling to fulfill launch-day preorders in a well timed method. However Steam Deck items have been obtainable with no preorder since October and are actually set to be delivered one to 2 weeks after an order is positioned.
Whereas this might simply be an indication of enhancements in longstanding hardware supply chain issues, the Steam Deck {hardware} has additionally dropped a bit on Steam’s own sales charts in latest weeks. And you’ll distinction the Steam Deck’s sale value with the Nintendo Change, which has yet to see an official price drop in its six-year history (although retailer-specific Black Friday-style deals have thrown in bundled video games and Change On-line subscriptions for the usual MSRP).
If you happen to’re frightened about investing within the first Steam Deck proper earlier than the launch of a souped-up model 2, fret not. Valve has recently suggested {that a} extra highly effective follow-up to the Steam Deck is “a number of years” away (although a more surface-level cosmetic refresh may conceivably come sooner).
