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Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs

Valve has increased the price of the Steam Deck by over 40%. The company stated that this price rise is due to the current increase in component costs, despite the hardware itself remaining unchanged.

Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs

Valve has increased the price of the Steam Deck by over 40%. The company stated that this price rise is due to the current increase in component costs, despite the hardware itself remaining unchanged.

Valve's Steam Deck is back in stock after months, but you won't like it

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages

Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

Less than 24 hours after Valve announced renewed availability of the Steam Deck OLED (at a massively increased MSRP), the handheld is once again listed as “out of stock” in the US and Canada. Spot checks of other regional Steam stores on Thursday morning showed the hardware as still available across Europe and Australia for the time being, as well as in Asian countries through Valve’s sales partner Komodo. While it’s hard to know from the outside just how many Steam Deck units sold at the...

Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

The Steam Controller sold out super quickly and Valve is working on a restock

The Steam Controller sold out super quickly and Valve is working on a restock Here's the timeline: Reviews of the Steam Controller went live on April 27 (here's ours). That same day, Valve announced the controller's availability date (May 4) and price ($99). A week of pontification about the gamepad's price point followed and by the morning of May 5, the Steam Controller was officially sold out.

Steam Machine and Steam Frame are coming 'this summer'

Steam Machine and Steam Frame are coming 'this summer' Still no price in sight. The Steam Machine and Steam Frame are officially scheduled to land in summer 2026, Valve announced today in a blog post about something else entirely. There's still no word on how much either bit of hardware will cost.

Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal

It was explosive news week – if you're the price of a popular-but-aging piece of consumer gaming hardware or a Jeff Bezos rocket. This week on The Kettle, Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by Reg reporters Richard Speed and Dan Robinson to talk about the Steam Deck's 40+ percent price hike and what it means for the ongoing memory and storage shortage. Sure, it's just consumer hardware, but it's the latest in a line of price hikes justified in the name of AI and geopolitics – and it could spell...