Steam Deck price jumps by three hundred dollars
Valve has increased the prices of its Steam Deck models by $200 to $300 due to rising component costs. The Steam Deck OLED 512GB is now priced at $789, while the 1TB model costs $949. This price hike has raised concerns about the potential pricing of Valve's upcoming Steam Machine.
- ▪The Steam Deck OLED 512GB is now priced at $789 USD.
- ▪The Steam Deck OLED 1TB has increased to $949 USD.
- ▪The price increase is attributed to rising memory and storage costs.
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Steam Deck price jumps by three hundred dollars Grant St. Clair 9:59 am Fri May 29, 2026 Image via Séamus Bellamy At this point, "big games company makes its hardware more expensive out of nowhere and for no reason" feels like as much of a certainty as the sun rising in the east. For some unquantifiable reason, though, it just feels different when Valve does it. Valve has long had a reputation as the most pro-consumer games company out there, and while that conveniently ignores the fact that they literally invented lootboxes and paid mods, they do tend to be less scummy than most. For one, they're privately owned, which means there's no pressure from investors to enshittify themselves, and for two, they're richer than God thanks to taking a cut of every single Steam transaction.
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