Valve’s year-old Steam Deck is on sale for the first time
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Valve’s year-old Steam Deck is on sale for the first time
Save 10 percent on any hardware configuration until March 23.
Kyle Orland - 3/16/2023, 10:11 PM
Valve is celebrating the first year of official availability for the Steam Deck with the hardware's first-ever official sale. Those looking to buy Valve's portable hardware can get a unit for 10 percent off until March 23 as part of Steam's regular spring software sale.
In the US, that translates to the following price reductions for the various Steam Deck configurations:
- 64GB eMMC: $399.00 down to $359.10
- 256GB NVMe: $529.00 down to $476.10
- 512GB NVMe: $649.00 down to $584.10
While this could just be a sign of improvements in longstanding hardware supply chain issues, the Steam Deck hardware has also dropped a bit on Steam's own sales charts in recent weeks. And you can contrast the Steam Deck's sale price with the Nintendo Switch, which has yet to see an official price drop in its six-year history (though retailer-specific Black Friday-style deals have thrown in bundled games and Switch Online subscriptions for the standard MSRP).
If you're worried about investing in the first Steam Deck right before the launch of a souped-up version 2, fret not. Valve has recently suggested that a more powerful follow-up to the Steam Deck is "a few years" away (though a more surface-level cosmetic refresh could conceivably come sooner).
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