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Valve's price hike reportedly wipes out 82% of Steam Deck sales as it goes into "near-total collapse"
(www.xda-developers.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2026
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I have a 512gb Gen1 and it was on the high side of pricing $650 at the time but the value was in the convenience and not so much the performance. The Gen3 512gb has OLED but now I couldn't justify the price tag $800 without getting a lot more boost in performance. For the same price I could get a Legion or ROG handheld that on paper has 1.5 times the performance.
Got my 512 LCD when they were blowing them out. 419 CAD. I used it a LOT. Still do.
Between Slay the Spire, Vamipre Survivors, Dead Cells, Balatro, BallxPit, Persona 5 Royal… I probably have north of 1000 hours on the device. That not even including emulated games because there isn’t an hour counter on them that I know of.
The console has been an insane value and I used the shit out of it when traveling on planes/trains.
I think I have 1200 hours of Elden ring night reign on there alone. And I played your first 4 games a ton on here too. And others. And emulated titles too 🤣. The decks amazing
If you add your emulators to Steam as non-Steam games, it can track your playtime for you. 😜
Switched to RetroDeck recently, and been having a blast playing through Front Mission 3 for the first time.