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Valve May Start Selling Refurbished Steam Decks Soon - Steam Deck HQ
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Meh, $500+ for what is basically a $350 laptop crammed into a handheld form factor is not exactly what I'd call "reasonable".
Can you point me to a $350 laptop with similar specs? And the form factor is the whole selling point, duh.
I, for one, would actually be fine with buying a Steam Deck at that price just so that way Steam/Valve have incentive to continue their work on Proton (their answer to try and get unsupported games working on Linux and their own official SteamOS).
The trade-off of giving them incentive to work on Proton, which would help an estimated roughly 2.5 million "monthly active users" using Steam on Linux definitely seems reasonable to me at least.
Yeah but I don't want a laptop. Until people start making handhelds this good at that price (and there are competitors getting close) then the price seems fine.