Steam Deck™
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Steam Deck™ is the most powerful, full-featured gaming handheld in the world.

• 1TB OLED $649 -> $949

• 512GB OLED $549 -> $789

Yowzers, I got the LCD one for $400 plus a little extra to swap in a bigger SSD. $1k for Zen 2 is tough to swallow…

  • godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    47·
    3 months ago

    gaben needs another megayacht

    reminder that any price increases buyers are forced to pay could literally come out of a few rich pigs’ salaries at whatever company you’re buying the shit from

    edit: i went on reddit and immediately saw this. like when NYPD kills an unarmed black kid and suddenly they’re saving kittens from a tree on the front page of reddit.

    • WokePalpatine [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      I mean, it’s still affordable if you’re not playing new stuff. There are tons of computers/devices around that can natively play or emulate thousands of good, older games. It’s more of an issue that the “gaming community” is filled with shallow trend-chasers who pressure and denigrate other people to spend insane amounts of money on the hobby before they’re allowed to have an opinion or receive any sort of attention.

      • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        honestly even new stuff runs fine on older hardware. The days of games like Crysis having extremely bad optimization are behind us, pretty much everything that comes out now has pretty good compatability.

        source: I still have no trouble playing new major releases on my mid range pc from 5 years ago

        • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago

          My computer is 7 years old and I would still call it newish lol. To build a comparable one now would cost more than it did at the time.

          It’s pretty hard to find second hand PCs that are in working order + not cockroach infested biohazards. There’s a market for ex corporate laptops but most have awful thermal characteristics and integrated GPUs and wouldn’t be suitable for much gaming beyond dwarf fortress/true roguelikes/emulation up to like the DS probably skipping some PS2 games.

          Maybe in more populous places there are better used markets. People atm are trying to sell 5 year old hardware more than it was at the time.

          • LittleFellaNamedBoof [any]@hexbear.netdeleted by creatorEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Yeah I’m actually about to sell my desktop just because I barely use it and need the money and its probably worth more than it was when I bought it now. I have a laptop (a 2nd hand corpo fleet one i got for cheap funnily enough) and will just use that. Not a big gamer anymore. Maybe play a game once a month tops.

        • WokePalpatine [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          I don’t play games released after October 7th. Don’t ask why.

          Edit: revising that to games after October 20th. Don’t ask why.
          Edit2: further revising that to games after September 26th 2024. Don’t ask why.

    • segfault11 [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      tbf from like 2007 to 2020 you could build a $600 PC and it would be good for gaming for at least 5 years, and on the console side of things they would drop the price by around like $100 every 3 years

      • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I don’t know what currency you’re using but including peripherals it was still >1k aud iirc. in the early 2000s when I did a lot of building for friends an nvidea like 800 or something (they’d just rolled physx in a generation or 2 prior and games started getting cool) was like 300 aud, you could get a pretty nice core 2 duo for like 120 aud or one of the newish quad cores for like 300 (and play crisis! man that game smashed your CPU) ram was like 30 aud to be a sensible amount all the way from 32 bit to 64 bit systems. MB was ~100 aud, PSU was like 200 aud for a good one but would easily last multiple decades so it gets kinda amortised across builds. Even if a cap blew you could just replace it (omg when mobos started using solid state caps repairs got so much leas impossible <3 science nerds).

        Monitors were like 200-1500 aud, keyboards 100-400, speakers were expensive before the glory of fossi amps and Edifier often like 200-400 if you wanted 2.1 sound. A mic added another 50.

        Prices went down a bit, especially GPUs and spinning rust but I don’t know if it was ever that cheap unless you discount all peripherals. I’d usually tell people to beg, borrow, or steal some second hand peripherals and upgrade slowly. Same as hhds (used to cost a mint)

    • RION [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      I felt a little guilty when I bought mine because I was unemployed at the time… guess it could’ve been worse!

    • LittleFellaNamedBoof [any]@hexbear.netdeleted by creatorEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      While I agree the prices are absurd I don’t think the lower capacity thing helps anymore. It used to be a lot cheaper because there were like manufacturing issues with packing more space onto an ssd but the main thing pushing prices up now is that the NAND chips are competeing with the AI hardware for space on the assembly line. So the companies still making consumer NAND are going to prioritize the higher capacity more expensive and higher margin products. I’d guess lower capacity stuff just doesn’t exist in the volume needed at all. I wouldn’t be surprised if soon the lowest you can find for an SSD is 1TB and its expensive as fuck. The AI companies really are just decimating global production of every computer component. I hope China comes in and steals the market from them while they’re neglecting it.