*** The Official Steam Deck Thread ***

Emlyn_Dewar said:
Valve will be out of business soon, without taking the business advice of the experts in this thread... :D
The Steam Deck has always been a reasonable price, and it's definitely still selling well at the current asking. Why would they discount it at all? Maybe they should have just charged more for it throughout the year, so they could discount it for black Friday? Or... Maybe they don't need to do anything different.
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Steam deck is cheap priced for what it is
 
Apparently there has been datamined leak of the design a new Steam Controller. One youtube guy is saying it basically looks like a Steam Deck without a screen in terms of the controls on it. Critically it appears to have 2 track pads built in which for me is a good sign the Steam Deck 2 will retain the dual track pad design, cos my biggest fear with the SD2 would be they drop the track pads, even going down to one would be a blow. Might all be speculatory fluff, but fingers crossed anyway.
 
Bubo said:
Apparently there has been datamined leak of the design a new Steam Controller. One youtube guy is saying it basically looks like a Steam Deck without a screen in terms of the controls on it. Critically it appears to have 2 track pads built in which for me is a good sign the Steam Deck 2 will retain the dual track pad design, cos my biggest fear with the SD2 would be they drop the track pads, even going down to one would be a blow. Might all be speculatory fluff, but fingers crossed anyway.
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Yea I watched that earlier this morning during breakfast
 
I could accept the argument that LCD model provides good value at its current price point.

However, the OLED version is priced at about the max they could reasonably charge for it, particularly the 1tb version. £570 is not ‘cheap’.

I refer back to my original post, my point about the lack of a sale is not that the product is not good. It’s specifically that I simply don’t want to spend ‘day one’ money on something which is approaching the end of its lifecycle.

The example I gave is buying a brand new iPhone in August, you’d only do that if you really need one now otherwise you’d just wait for the new one. I’m certainly in no rush to buy and I’m more than happy to wait for the next one. I might be waiting a year but that’s fine by me.

I can’t see valve going into 2026 with the current hardware, it’s getting very long in the tooth now and struggles with modern titles. That last point is a real problem that can’t be ignored because it’s ‘cheap’ (the 1TB OLED version isn’t ‘cheap’ IMO).

The suggestion that I think value is going out of business for not doing a Black Friday sale is nonsensical hyperbole and twisting what I and other posters have said. I’m sorry if this post attacks your world view, but it doesn’t make my opinion wrong or invalid.
 
Bubo said:
Apparently there has been datamined leak of the design a new Steam Controller. One youtube guy is saying it basically looks like a Steam Deck without a screen in terms of the controls on it. Critically it appears to have 2 track pads built in which for me is a good sign the Steam Deck 2 will retain the dual track pad design, cos my biggest fear with the SD2 would be they drop the track pads, even going down to one would be a blow. Might all be speculatory fluff, but fingers crossed anyway.
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I’m one of the strange people that actually liked the OG steam controller so this is promising.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
I could accept the argument that LCD model provides good value at its current price point.

However, the OLED version is priced at about the max they could reasonably charge for it, particularly the 1tb version. £570 is not ‘cheap’.

I refer back to my original post, my point about the lack of a sale is not that the product is not good. It’s specifically that I simply don’t want to spend ‘day one’ money on something which is approaching the end of its lifecycle.

The example I gave is buying a brand new iPhone in August, you’d only do that if you really need one now otherwise you’d just wait for the new one. I’m certainly in no rush to buy and I’m more than happy to wait for the next one. I might be waiting a year but that’s fine by me.

I can’t see valve going into 2026 with the current hardware, it’s getting very long in the tooth now and struggles with modern titles. That last point is a real problem that can’t be ignored because it’s ‘cheap’ (the 1TB OLED version isn’t ‘cheap’ IMO).

The suggestion that I think value is going out of business for not doing a Black Friday sale is nonsensical hyperbole and twisting what I and other posters have said. I’m sorry if this post attacks your world view, but it doesn’t make my opinion wrong or invalid.
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570 is cheap. We are in 2024, not 1999. Inflation mate.
 
jonneymendoza said:
570 is cheap. We are in 2024, not 1999. Inflation mate.
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It’s only cheap compared to Nvidia’s £lol pricing for a modern GPU thanks to no competition in the space and gamers willingness to bow down to our leather jacket wearing overlord.

Inflation doesn’t turn an upper tier GPU from a £649 product into a £1200 product in 2 years. Particularly when that £649 product was a £349 product a few years prior.
 
The price of GPUs hasn’t got much to do with it. OLED small handheld PC, a full computer.
Yes, everyone wants everything to be free, but pretty sure Valve’s main profits from Steam Deck’s aren’t coming from the hardware-side.
 
TheOtherOption said:
Decided to upgrade the storage on my 1tb OLED model to 2tb and try dual booting windows - has anyone else done this lately and how quick / easy was the process?
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I think there are differences, but I did this on my LCD a few weeks ago. Really easy with the ifixit guide. Recommend decent screwdriver set / tool to pop oper the chassis.
 
TheOtherOption said:
Decided to upgrade the storage on my 1tb OLED model to 2tb and try dual booting windows - has anyone else done this lately and how quick / easy was the process?
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I did this last week on my 512GB OLED. The SSD upgrade was easy. Reinstalling Steam OS & dual booting Windows was a bit of a faff. But some of that was down to poor planning on my part.

This is the guide I used in the end:

 
b0rn2sk8 said:
I could accept the argument that LCD model provides good value at its current price point.

However, the OLED version is priced at about the max they could reasonably charge for it, particularly the 1tb version. £570 is not ‘cheap’.

I refer back to my original post, my point about the lack of a sale is not that the product is not good. It’s specifically that I simply don’t want to spend ‘day one’ money on something which is approaching the end of its lifecycle.

The example I gave is buying a brand new iPhone in August, you’d only do that if you really need one now otherwise you’d just wait for the new one. I’m certainly in no rush to buy and I’m more than happy to wait for the next one. I might be waiting a year but that’s fine by me.

I can’t see valve going into 2026 with the current hardware, it’s getting very long in the tooth now and struggles with modern titles. That last point is a real problem that can’t be ignored because it’s ‘cheap’ (the 1TB OLED version isn’t ‘cheap’ IMO).

The suggestion that I think value is going out of business for not doing a Black Friday sale is nonsensical hyperbole and twisting what I and other posters have said. I’m sorry if this post attacks your world view, but it doesn’t make my opinion wrong or invalid.
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Compare it to a laptop of similar spec or any of the competing handheld. For what is on offer the price point is "cheap". You can think it's not worth the money but that doesn't change how much it costs to make.
 
My refurbished 512GB OLED arrived today, just at the start of my time off lasting until 6th January :D

I'm new to the handheld scene so are there any 'need to knows' before I get started with it?

I'm looking to set it up mainly with emulators and such because the bulk of my gaming will still be on my PC. Is there a guide for the best way to do this?
I've heard people talk about EmuDeck, should I start my search there?
 
no_1_dave said:
My refurbished 512GB OLED arrived today, just at the start of my time off lasting until 6th January :D

I'm new to the handheld scene so are there any 'need to knows' before I get started with it?

I'm looking to set it up mainly with emulators and such because the bulk of my gaming will still be on my PC. Is there a guide for the best way to do this?
I've heard people talk about EmuDeck, should I start my search there?
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Biggest need to know is dont believe anyone on Reddit who says a game "works great". Usually that means it loads and plays at 20fps
 
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