512GB OLED: $549 to $7891TB OLED: $649 to $949it's fucking over
>>739694668>Out of stockPeople will buy it at $10000 regardless.
>>739694758This means they're about to restock, there hasn't been a change in a whilealso means machine and frame are close, but with this price upping I fear for my wallet...
>it's realyeah the machine and frame are DOA
>it's realHoly fuck, Shitmachine is gonna be over 1k judging by this. They also basically just said "go buy Switch 2 instead" with this price increase lmao. Retarded PC brownoids can't stop losing.
>price increase for a device you can't fucking buy anyway
>>739694909It's in stock in first world countries
>>739694896Only pedophiles want a switch 2, it’s what they use to groom 7 year olds
>>739694668At this price point just build a PC
>>739695061>Nintendo out of nowhere Rent free
>>739695061>Only pedophiles want a switch 2what are you babbling about, a steamdeck allows you run shit behind nine layers of proxies. it's 100x more tailored to the groomologist.
>>739694668HAHAHAHA valve niggers crying
>>739695060Germany is up too, only 1tb version though.
>>739694668The Machine will be $1200 at least, right?
>>739694668Welp there goes my idea of wanting to get one in the future. No thanks, I'd rather buy a PC at that point.
lmao just checked and ram prices have gone UP again
DROP THE PRICE
>>739695254You genuinely have to be a retard to buy a PC for gaming in this economy.
>>739695254PCs will be 5k soon
>>739695138what else can you expect from pcthirdies?
Thanks to all the pajeets making this shit more expensive.
Pc gaming has fallen
>>739694668There’s NO way the steam machine is gonna be worth it
>>739695337cheaper and better than consolesbetter bang for the buck compared to handhelds
>>739694668AI faggots ruin everything.
>>739694668>>739695254YOU RETARDS GET A REFURB QUICK
>>739694668>he missed out on the $300 LCD stock clearanceyou only have yourself to blame
they really shouldn't have bothered restocking if the component cost was that high
>>739695440It's gonna be better than a PS5 Pro for ~800$I say it's gonna be very much worth it
>>739695138>Switch 2 as a topic was brought up>respond to it>BUHH WHY ARE YOU MENTIONING NINTENDO OUT OF NOWHEREERetarded tendie
Fucking hell, lmao, not worth it at that price.First Light does run pretty good on it tho.
Ain't no fucking way the steam machine is going to be less that $1200 for the base model
If anyone interested, I'm selling mine 1TB for 100$ less if you don't mind few scratches and some little white stains.
>>739694668We don't bully pcbros enough.
>>739695440There's no way ANY tech that uses memory or GPUs is going to be worth it soon.
>>739695337I'm sure being in a walled garden and paying for overly expensive shit games and online is the best choice, console fag.
>>739695387naw, this is trump's fault for starting tariffs and blockading the strait
My name is Freddy Francesco and I'm so rich I can buy 1 Steam Deck with 1 game. Can you?
>>739694668>£779.00 1TB OLED> 1280 x 800 HDR OLED display with premium anti-glare
>>739695650More like one Steam Deck with hundreds of games under $5, emulation, and piracy.
>>739694668just build a pc retard your fat ass isn't leaving the house anyway
>>739695118Good luck with that. Prices for storage and ram are still high.
>>739694668Oof
>>739694668Well lads, it was nice having local hardware, but I guess it's cloud gaming for us now.
>>739695440it's not but you'll still see turdies justify buying it
>>739695446>>739695626retards not understanding that no one will be able to afford any gaming hardware
>>739694668what's even the point if they're going to price it that high? they should've given it a better SoC or nothing at all, that's about the only thing that needs an upgrade in there
>>739694668...the company that makes billions of dollars of profit each year just INCREASED the price of their most popular product? I thought Valve was one of the few good companies left.
>>739694668Lol, Imagine being so poor that you think this is expensivePc gaming has always been for rich people like myself, only poor niggas play on console
>>739695337They won't have a choice to abandon the platform now since nvidia/amd abandoned them and labeled them as computing bottom feeders.Should have bought more GPUs chuds. Now your hobby is dead unless you admit you aren't the so called master race and buy a console like God intended for gaming.The future is going to be great watching these losers eat their words.
>>739695692Just get an old pair of ddr4 ram and something like a ryzen 5600 or some shit, for storage just get one of the cheaper kingstom nvmes, then get an rtx 5050 and you're golden, already better off than with a steam deck
lmaooo
>>739695792Gaming in general is a rich activity now days.
>>739694668Those price increases are insane. No way Steam Machine is under $1,000.
>>739695580Yes but what happens if prices never go down again, "soon" can turn into 10 years
>>739695515It's weaker than base PS5 and will cost easily over a grand.
>>739695854By soon, I mean a permanent change once it happens. And it will only get worse.
>>739695841Gaming has always been gatekept from poors aside from like flash games. It's just that the middle class is part of the poors now
>>739695515>It's gonna be better than a PS5 Pro for ~800$brother the 2022 hardware Steam Deck costs $950 why the fuck do you think the steam machine will be cheaper than the deck, you're gonna be paying $1500 for a prebuilt PC that is a sidegrade to a $700 PS5 Pro and has Gabe's name on it
>>739694668And you guys were making fun of Gamers Nexus for reporting on electronics price increases yesterday.
>>739695913>It's weaker than base PS5 and will cost easily over a grand.Not really no
>>739695515>It's gonna be better than a PS5 Pro
>>739694668
>>739695821>consolecuck unironically believes consoles won't be the ones to be axed first considering their shit tier lower profit margin contractspcs are still better value than consoles now btw, the ps5 pro has a $350 gpu
>>739696001Yeah but switch 2 literally has 0 games
>>739695841Logical move, target the people who can actually afford to whale on games with $1000s in DLC and microtranscations. Indiefags are going to be dead with computers costing so much too.
You voted for this.
It's been very vindicating watching steamies/pc chuds lose constantly lately, especially now that pc gaming is confirmed deadConsole bros I highly recommend the latest GamersNexus kino where he calls the death of pc gaming. The amount of master race peasants crying on the comments over their $3000 paperweights is glorious
>>739694668so the steam machine will cost a gorillion dollars despite being weaker than a base ps5
>>739696085Yeah the dems would have shut down AI and we would be living in a utopia right now
>Faggots who didn't get GeforceNow Early and haven't got unlimited playtime grandfathered in KEKlamaoEnjoy your locked down 1 hour long cloud gaming sessions and waiting 6 hours for the queue. I'm going to enjoy the cloud era of gaming.
>>739695951Valve will subsidize it
>$1000 US DOLLARSat least i got a switch 2 before the price hike
Deck 2 bros… how are we looking?
>>739696143Rumour I saw was dems were talking about monopoly busting big tech and that's why they all got on their knees for trump.So maybe you're half right.
>>739695967>>739695515this retard hasn't seen the specs lmao
>>739696069It has at least 5 exclusives that aren't on the original Switch or anything else. And I'm not even counting the Welcome Tour or Drag X Drive. It's a pitiful library, but saying zero is just lying.
>>739696160They increased the price of the 1TB OLED by $300! They're not subsidizing shit.
>>739696069you keep repeating it to yourself
>>739696005consoles are a better value if you're buying an entire prebuilt machinePC upgrades are a better value if you're buying a singular component upgrade, and don't need to replace anything else and aren't counting previous investments
>>739695484>buying a second hand cum stained handheldbetter be cheaper than that
>still have my launch 512gb lcd I'm gonna have to baby this thing the rest of my life
>>739694668nani the fuck ? also FUCK AI slop and fuck billionaires
Why get a Steam Deck where you can just buy an Odin or similar console for much cheaper? I still have my Odin Lite and that only cost me $200, great battery life and plays all emulators up to Wii plus Steam games via streaming.
>>739696168Switch 2 is gonna cost only $50 more, that's fair enough.
>>739695913>>739695976No, it's not, this "weaker than a base ps5" thing is misinformationThe PS5 and PS5 Pro both have 16gb of shared ram, that is divided as follows:>4gb reserved for the OS>8GB allocated as regular ram so the system can run stable>4gb allocated as vramCompare that to the steam machine's specs>16gb of ram>8gb of vramDon't forget the machine's CPU is newer architecture and actually quite good unlike the cut down RDNA 1 of the PS5 and PS5 PRO, but really, the machine has double the vram of both PS5 models, it's not even a comparison, it's a massacre>>739695951It's not a sidegrade, it's an upgrade, you essentially go from a 4gb vram machine to an 8gb vram machine, you'll also have more ram, and will be able to use it as a regular PC as well. The fact that it's Valve's makes it better since I'll be supporting the only company that treats their customers with dignitiy nowadays
so we all know the reason why this is happening the question is, when does it end?and will things be better and more affordable when it finally does? it has to better than the way things were before they all went down this path, right?
>>739696258just don't be retarded and build?
>>739696085>You voted for this.And I don't regret it one bit.
>>739694668That really stings. The absolute state we're in.Courtesy of A.I. garbage
>>739694668Jesus, I remember getting the cheapest one for 300 bucks kek wtf gabe
>>739694668yeah steam machine is 100% dead at these prices.PC + switch 2 remains the way to go.>but no new mario/zelda yetim comfy with the classics collection and my switch 1/2 games. Got MH Rise + Sunbreak for like $8 on sale a while ago for example.
It's okay when Valve does it
>>739696339And they gave a four-month notice instead of "it's tomorrow lol" like other companies.
>>739694668jeez.
>>739694668Oooooooooof Valve has just killed themselves, they just handed the gaming industry to Sony, the PS6 at $700 will be the best selling console of all times and when the PSP3 launches at $500 they will put the final nail on shitendo already flopping Shitch 2
>>739696248If you don't like or are interested in Nintendo games it offers very little of interest except worse versions of several year old multiplatform games, it's also overpriced considering the specs if you're not interested in handheld gaming and the games virtually never go on sale, especially not for any notable discount. They just raised their prices too, like everything else that is competing for hardware in the AI bubble.
>>739696345>the question is, when does it end?Not anytime soon, and you can thank the US and Israel for that. Look forward to even more inflation, nd especially food inflation as a result of the pointless Iran war.
>>739694668that’s fucking ridiculous.>muh chip shortages please unda standnot my problem. fuck off with your made up kike bullshit. >>739696309same. i will just look into one of the competitors when it dies because im not paying nearly a grand for a fucking hand held.
>>739696429I guess you missed all the pissed off people about the price hike?
>>739694668Ahahahahahahahahahaha>MUH DECK 2 WILL BE CHEAPER THAN SWITCH 2 FUCK NINTENDO’S GREED>Valve makes Deck 1 2x more expensive than Switch 2AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA PAY UP PIGGY
>>739696345Prices almost never go down once they've gone up and hit a new baseline. You're gonna pay more so that some dipshits in another thread can generate porn. Welcome to Elon Musk's world.
>>739694668i guess the Machine will cost 1199 or something? Fuck off you fat fuck >>739696345>why this is happeningtinny hats, capitalism and billionaires>when does it end?when people do a french revolution Worldwide, anything else is npc cope
Will Nintendo ever cave & port all their titles to PC? that would be so fucking kino even if they had their own launcher.
>>739696342>Valvejeet damage control campaign KEK
>>739694668So, what, Valve have shitty negotiators and can't get ahead of Dell/HP/etc. for memory so have to be a bottom feeder slurping scraps at the worst prices?
>>739696085AI is literally pushed by libtard companies. They all donate to democrats. But it doesn't matter. it would happen regardless.
>steamies unironically defending thisMental illness
>>739696279well now you don't have access to cheap oled anymore :)
>>739696445Probably because AI datacenters aren't particularly interested in 12 year old tegra mobile GPUs dug out of a bin in Taiwan, why they even raised prices at all is a mystery.
>>739696345Even if the bubble pops today, it will take some time, at least from what I understand, the memory used for AI datacenters are different from the ones yoused by everyone else, and as companies change their production methods to produce more AI ram, it will take some time for them to be able to change productions methods for everyday use ram.Assuming of course that that it's true, its something I read in passing once, and that companies even if they go back to produce RAM for the consumer market will be willing to reduce prices, which is almost a not happening.Anyway, eventually someone will understand that they simply are making money from AI, panic, sell everything and makes everyone panic too
>>739696424>switch 2Buy an ad
>>739694668How the fuck is this real? That's way too expensive kek
wait Valve didnt even give a week or month of a heads up before hiking the price? What the absolute fuck are Valve thinking?
>>739696498>same. i will just look into one of the competitorsbro, the competition is already all over 1000$, not only that but the customer support from Valve is stellar, you don't get that with the competition
>>739694668$300 price increase is utterly insane.The only thing the Steam deck has over the other ones now is its battery life
>refurbed oled 512gb now costs almost as much as the new oled 1tb didIt's so over.>>739696445it was a 2 week warning in japan iirc
>>739694668To think all of this could’ve been easily avoidable…
>>739696559You are so fucking retarded lmao
>>739694668Oh no I guess il just have to keep playing games at high FPS and settings on my cheaper laptop
>>739696182Probably thinking more realistically than snoys who believe the PS handheld will be sold for $350.
Have you said thank you?
>>739695061There’s no Roblox on Switch
wanna know a surprisingly good mobile emulation device?the macbook neo. it runs ryujinx with no issues. grab some nsp roms and you are good to go. cheaper than a deck and it's a laptop lmaoAPPLE is more sensible with hardware than Steam, what the fuck is even happening.
>>739694668>Switch 2 got a $50 price raise but with months long notice so that you can get one before the increase>Steam Deck gets a $240/$300 price raise instantly with no advance noticeJesus
Did you fall for the anti-glare meme and ruin your nice OLED screen /v/?
Nintenchads... Won...
>>739696475>If you don't like or are interested in Nintendo games it offers very little of interest except worse versions of several year old multiplatform gamesPretty amazing you keep telling yourself that lie while being largely unaware how far the game library on the Switch ecosystem goes.
>>739696581Every data center and AI company is devouring RAM and memory storage, which is the real source of price increases. The odds are we can see the Switch 2 go through another larger price increase if things keep going this way.
Problem, steamies?
>predict the price of the steam machine$1599
>>739695838Furukawa already suggested that the hike to $500 isn't enough to continue their usual business model of selling the hardware at a profit, the Switch 2 will likely be in the same place come 2027.
>>739696502>I guess you missed all the pissed off people about the price hike?Falseflagging tendiesnoys
>>739694668you know what's the biggest bullshit? Steam print money, so they can keep the prices low for Steam deck and the Machine in the future and eat the expensives while keep growing as a gaming platform and looking like the good guys, but i guess that's too hard
>>739696621AI boom would have evolved in the same way no matter who was in office
>>739696621Leave it to cuckera to forget both parties are run by the exact same interests
>>739695515The "Steam library" will not justify it being more money than a new Xbox/PS6 because Microsoft and Sony will sell it at a loss. Again we circled back around to where things were before, which is that Steam console is pointless because the money is better spent on a PCThe Steam deck/machine made more sense when hardware wasn't subject to hyperinflation
>>739696641anon silicon valley is libtard land, 99% donation rate to democrat candidates.AI slop and datacenters are not Trump's fault. It's corpo greed.
Thank you Trump, and his fucking moronic slack jawed voters!
I figured it'd happen, kinda wish I got an OLED deck earlier, but whattayagonnado.I guess this does answer my questions about the Gabecube, and I'll probably just upgrade my current desktop instead.
>>739696739>two more weeks!
>>739696005Keep coping and being oblivious to the facts.Console gamers have the luxury of having Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo securing the hardware for them, and developers focus on optimizing for the console experience. Basically we get the luxury experience of being catered to.Meanwhile all of your components come from several different sources who are currently being swayed with big bags of money from the tech industry and have long forgotten you, and devs don't bother optimizing your experience since "they'll just buy better hardware or install a mod that fixes it for us"You'll be lucky if in 5 years you can even buy a CPU Fan for that 10 year old secondhand cpu you had to buy off ebay to replace your dead one because they don't make consumer level cpus anymore.
>>739696732999 for the cheapest steam machine, 1400 for the frame
>>739696685I thank Trump every day for the wonderful bounty of libtard tears regardless of how much my own ass is fucked by him
>>739694668Damn. The Switch 2's 50$ increase somehow makes nintendo look like the good guys now. Next gen is so fucked
>valve killing the deck on a random wednesday nightthat shit was underpowered when it released and now all the parts are gonna shoot up. putting mine on battery reserve and selling it for above previous RRP in a month ggs valve
Don’t care, as long as I’m owning the libs everything is fine
>>739696758Literally no company is going to eat a loss when they can just jack up prices. They have to make some kind of profit off of it.The thing is once prices go up they never go down which is why fucking everything just keeps going up but you have never seen anything go down in the past decade.
>>739695118You can’t play a PC in bed or on the couch
>>739696813If a democrat was in office during this they would be rightfully getting eviscerated over hyperinflation and price increases. Silicon Valley might be libtards but it's the Presidents job to reign them in and he's done nothing but enable them.
>>739696721I own a Switch lol I bought it for Smash, I've seen their shovelware library
HEY GOYIM! DADDY GABEN NEEDS ANOTHER YACHT!
>>739694668Holy shit so glad I got these when I did
>ITT: retards willing to pay nearly double for a 4 year old device
How does old tech go up 300 dollars
should I just get one of those rog allys at this rate?
even nintendo was smart enough to give it a few months between the announcement of the increase and the actual increase
>>739694668I thought Valve didn't sell hardware at a loss, yet clearly they did before today. Fucking 40%+ price hikes.
don't forget what they took from you.
>>739696984ram and storage costing 500% more
>>739696591This news is the most effective ad for a Switch 2 that you could make lol
>>739696856Such a good little boy you are.
LMAOOOOOThe switch 2 is $500 while the steam deck is $790the "switch killer" keeps killing itself even harderyou're almost paying $1 per pixel on that garbage 800p screen
I was contemplating getting OLEDeck to upgrade from my LCDeck. Not anymore, should have bought last summer sale.
>>739697008Shit man, so there was no warning for this either? Why people suck valve's cock so much again?
lmao and snoys think project cannis is gonna be cheaper AND more powerful than the Switch 2.
>>739697047How good is it as an emulation machine
>2025yeah I know I still think it's funny
>>739696929>plug tv into PC>grab a controller>play on the couch>grab smartphone(which everyone owns)>grab controller>stream to your phone>play in bedDo you retards not realize consoles are just mini PCs that got all their functions removed except for playing video games?
>>739694668whAT THE FUCK?
>>739696985https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-to-officially-announce-arc-g3-for-gaming-handhelds-on-may-28Wait for panther lake handhelds, these new intel igpus are on par with a 4050
>>739696739This. Sucks dick for anyone wanting to become a tendie though.
>>739696950Kinda fucks the point you're making when the cancer going on with consumer electronic prices has been a bipartisan problem progressively getting worse over the past 12 years Mr. Both Sides (but especially those fucking nazi rightwingers)
>>739696929If you have a modern internet connection you can easily use something like Moonlight/Sunshine to just stream to your living room TV/bedroom TV.
>Rightoids mistaking pure lip service by corpos thinking they are lefties when they have been the kind of capitalists who will shank you whatever side you are on and change "sides" at the drop of a penny.
>>739697098*bows respectfully to the 1000 dollar game boy*
>>739697107It’s not the same and requires more work.
>>739697107>grab controller>stream to your phonedoes anyone actually do this?
>>739697107jesus, so many hoops I have to jump through just to do the same thing another person can do with the click of a button, yeah PC is not really convenient for this stuff
>>739697091>Paying $1000 to emulate decades old gameslmao amazing cope
reminder all these AI companies wanted Kamala to win, it has LITERALLY nothing to do with Trump, either way this was going to happen.So enjoy your AI, this is why RAM is $2000 btw
>>739696345AI
>>739697185>IESLB
>>739696901>Don’t care, as long as I’m owning the libs everything is fineThis but unironically Libs and poorfags btfo
I’m low key glad i brought mine on October last year(the 1tb one) because at that price is not fucking worth it, wtf valve
>Nintendo raised the price of the shitch 2 by $50>/v/ loses its mind for weeks>Valve raised the price of the Steam Deck by 4x as much>*crickets*really makes you think
>>739694668800p in 2026 L O L
>>739697235Usually you'd be right.But currently, those decade old games would be better than the absolute slop nintendo are making now
>>739697185No anon, Alex Karp is totally a leftie :)
rightoids told me for a decade that feminists would ruin my hobby but then their guys get in power and do it in 2 years
>nintendo raises the price of the switch 2 by $50 and promises to work on more games to make up for it>/v/ condemns nintendo>valve discontinues the cheapest deck and raises the oled price by $239 while still refusing to develop any games at all>gabe dick riders immediately jump to damage control
>>739697235Okay but what are your options for the handheld emulation niche that isn't chinkshit that will catch on fire
>>739697250Why did every single Techbro side with Trump and then people like Jensen Huang stating that Trump literally saved AI?
>>739697309Are the crickets in the room with us right now shitch vegan?
>>739697025>I thought Valve didn't sell hardware at a lossWhy would you think that? It's a pretty well-known fact the 'eck was subsidized.They said they didn't want to sell 'achine at a loss because a computer and a handheld have different post-purchase dynamics. Primarily, they don't want to sell 'achine at a loss because then some random office IT procurement faggot will just buy all of them because it's cheaper than a new optiplex or whatever.
>>739694668>$200 increaseare they retarded?
>>739697071my fucking eyes
>>739694668what is even the point of the deck? the price is way too high. you mught as well buy the asus rog or whatever other handheld exists for the same price range with better hardware
>>739697213>>739697231>so many hoops>literally plugging in a cordHow retarded and fat are you fags?>>739697226Yes, considering most phones are more powerful than a Switch 2 with a far better screen it's actually pretty cool
>>739694668Dang, good thing I bought my 1TB while it was still within reasonable pricing.But yeah, this does not bode well for the Machine and Frame prices. I was a huge believer that it'd be >1K but if they're willing to price the Deck that high, I'm not so sure anymore.
valvejeets won't be able to afford this
laugh at waitfags
AI has provided nothing beneficial for the common man yet and has only made things worse. When the fuck are people going to rise up?I used to cope with thinking that something has to give eventually but nothing is giving.
>>739697360>promises to work on more games to make up for itgee golly, if the heckin corporation promises something, well...that's just good enough for me
>>739694668You can get chinkheld like 200$ cheaper that will play even more games than Deck at this point lmao.
>>739697025They don't subsidize the BOM, and it just skyrocketedthey do not count R&D in the price though, which can be seen as a subsidy
>>739697428NOBODY is waiting for this ugly fucking thing to get a price drop, anyone that wanted one already has one.
>>739696001>Tendie legit thinks his tablet hasn't been on the line recently for being an overpriced ipad with no games
>>739696843You kept saying this last time and then it actually happened once the fiscal year report was out. Nintendo is not going to eat gargantuan losses on their hardware sales forever, they just don't do it.
>>739694668>$1000>can't even run current-gen gamesWho is buying this shit?
>>739697317Pixel density is higher than your monitor; cry more.>>739697360Absolutely nobody should buy it at this price. Before, it used to be simple, spen $300-$500 and just get a Steam Deck. Now, it's Android chinkhelds or second hand office fartboxes.
>>739697430Here's your realistic cyberpunk dystopia sir, we regret to inform you the neon lights are out of stock.
>>739696929I literally do exactly that on my phone from my PC nigga.
i thought LOrD gABeN was /ourguy/ pc cucks lmao
>>739697185Easy with the antisemitism
Is there anything in life that's actually getting cheaper
>>739695521>retarded pcbro thinks his fanboying is an own
way too expensive for dated hardware, buy an ally
>>739695512No kidding. Never selling mine.
>>739697405I just don't see it much. I used to have a controller mount for my phone and I hardly ever used it.Maybe big picture mode makes it easier, idk.
and retards thought the steam machine will be under 1000$ fucking LMAO
>Now it's cheaper to buy in Mexico
Officially no reason to get this over the SW2 now unless you're retarded. PC and SW2 is the ultimate gaming combo in 2026. If you don't agree you're just objectively wrong and only disagree because you've been psyoped into hating Nintendo.
>>739696846>Console gamers have the luxury of having Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo securing the hardware for them, and developers focus on optimizing for the console experience.
>>739697512He treats us way better than Sony ever will to you consolefag
>>739697430Rise up how? The lgbt parades get like 10k people showing up and the immigration cap ones are lucky to get 100
>>739697479They’re coping about it being worth it for emulation, something a psp could do lol
why the fuck would someone pay so much for such weak hardware? Steam deck is PS4 tier
>>739694668$700steammachinebros..... It's not looking good
>>739697309>200 posts in 45 minutes>fastest thread right nowLoud fucking crickets, jaysus.
>>739697485>Pixel density800p for $1k LMAO
>>739697369Because like you they don't actually have principles, but have the capacity to fuck around with the big government instead of just asking for it and hoping it happens and doesn't fuck you in the butt (it will, this is always a bad idea)
>>739697430Rich people want to get richer, whatever the cost.
>>739697582why would you even need a switch? Nintendo don't care about games anymore, they're an animation/movie publisher now
>>739694668they also released refurbs>most already gone.
>AYN Thor Max 1TB OLED with better faster SoC and same amount of RAM is 550$lmao what the actual fuck is Valve smoking?
>>739697582Buy an ad.
>>739697430>AI has provided nothing beneficial for the common man yetit has, locally generated cunnybut that's basically it
>>739697378Removing subsidy and adjusting for component prices. This is sunsetting the 'eck.>>739697391A used ROG Ally or Legion Go will be the path forward for PC handheld appreciators before the 80% off sale when they discontinue the Steam Deck.>>739697468>anyone that wanted one already has oneBasically this. Deck is cheaper to have on shelves than their incoming devices, and they've probably adjusted the quantities they're ordering, so this is basically a way to min-max their storage costs while slowly trickling out 'ecks to paypigs before they pull the plug and sunset the 'eck with a big sale.
>>739697582
>>739697319>>739697365>paying $1000 for something a psvita could do betterpathetic lmao
>>739697582Not just SW2 but high end chinkhelds are cheaper too and do same shit as Deck does but better, they even utilize Proton too and play PC titles. Valve is retarded.
gaming is finished thanks a lot ai sloppers
>>739697540TVs and Smartphones, relatively. This is how kikes calculate inflation to be at just 12% despite basically everything doubling in cost over the past half decade.
The steam deck isn't worth $549 let alone fucking $949 what an absolute scam
now valve vegans will have to work even harder on the mental gymnastics to shill their failure with 4 million lifetime sales only
>>739697540migrant housing
>first all the CS2 market crashing changes to force people off 3rd party sites and back onto the steam market>now thisValve is getting tiny hat-ier
>>739697639They have more exclusives than any other dev. Valve doesn't make games. They also have stronger 3rd party support than ever if that's something you absolutely need on SW2. But yeah, all relevant Japanese devs code and design on the SW2.
>>739697582>Officially no reason to get this over the SW2Piracy still makes this a better deal, but I wouldn't buy at this price. Glad I got mine.
>>739697360It's because Nintendo is a first world console, and /v/ is full of indians and slavniggers who play exclusively on a 10 year old PCs.
>>739697663that good-good jewish chronic
>>739694668Take care of your 'ecks everyone, I feel bad for those who wanted one though..Maybe valve saw how people were buying used ones at high prices, since it was barely in-stock, and decided that they'd rather just do it themselves?
>you either die a hero...
>>739697430never, we are past the era of great mass revolts, they best think you can do now a days if just to do nothing and let the system crumble, if we are lucky our sons and daughters will build something better from the dust and ashes of this dammed age
>>739697857Nintendo is selling Switch consoles in India, what are you even bringing them up for?
So wtf do they do with the Deck 2 now? Wait until things settle down in like 5 years or launch it at $1000+?
so they have to cancel the steam machine, a deck is just a screen and a small board + some ram and a CPU. the console is far more costly.$2000 steam machine? just build a PC?
>>739697582Don't come back until you have games and a screen without early 2000s response times.
>>739697850That's what your actual PC is for anon. Nobody in their right mind buys a steam deck before a PC.
>>739697857>Nintendo is a first world consolesar....
>>739697919They aren’t at this moment.
>>739697824>covering their asses to faggot kikes stop calling it gambling>sunsetting a device that's basically reached market saturationNothing to it. This is perfectly normal. In this economy, the RAM and storage alone make the Deck not worth selling to begin with.
>>739697369because Jensen Huang and Lisa Su are parasites who will kneel to anyone in power, which is obvious now.>donating to his superPAC, 1 mil>AMD had a no politics policy beforethese are literal yes men/grovelling leeches.
>>739697430You won't do shit
>>739694668Tripster status?
>>739694668Cultists will buy it anyway.
>>739697876The thing is it will likely never crumble, you will just learn to accept increasingly horrible conditions for yourself unless youre one of the top dawgs. The biggest issue is that people are too comfortable and dont want their phones taken away, most would be fine in a 200 sq foot room as long as they had internet access
>>739697836Well I don't like bing wahoo games or shitty animu shovelware so I guess the Switch is something I'm not interested in spending 600 dollars on. Most relevant Japanese publishers put their games on PC, so I have no fucking clue what you're talking about. There's like one that doesn't and that's Vanillaware but they make only multiplats anyway.
>>739697769>but high end chinkhelds are cheaper too and do same shit as Deck does but better,I fucking wish. FEX is so garbage.
what do these AI datacenters even do? 99% of people make nothing of value/no models of value.
>>739696976Projecting.
>>739696984All chip manufacturing being redirected towards datacenters.
>>739697924Hard to say because even if they wait things quite literally never get cheaper and that is just in general. We are hard on a path to people having less spending money than ever, unless you are the 1%, but people are more comfortable with just being debtslaves forever as well. AI will implode, but it will just come down to being a few big companies. OpenAI is never going to be able to purchase all the memory they ordered because they literally do not have the money.
>779€ OLED 512GBHow much was it before the price increase? I bought the 256GB "original no OLED" Deck for 494,10€ ages ago. I still use it occasionally. I guess this means the Cube is going to release with and expensive price tag, like a lot of PC components are.
>>739694668bought mine just before... maybe i should get a screen protector after all
>>739697794I wouldn't buy one, I don't think YOU should buy one.But if you had to pick one or the other, I'd probably still say the Steam Deck is the better deal.You can't beat the library of vidya you can play on PC.
Why are nintendofags coming out of the woodworks to shill for the Switch 2?Didn't that console just had a price hike as well, or are we memoryholing that?
>>739695512Based. I got mine a few years ago for $800, still not selling
>tfw boughted 1TB OLED for £540 two years ago>the same model is now £200 more expensivehahaha WHAT THE FUCK
>>739698070They exist to take everything from you
>>739698029he is still justifying his pedophilia
>>739697924There is no deck 2, the first deck sold like shit.
>>739698113before pricing increase
>>739698070Makes half the workforce obsolete so that companies can save money in your path
>>739697545>retarded tendie doesn't know how to read
>>739698070Nothing, it's a gold rush hysteria that will eventually burst and we'll see hundreds of these wastes of space abandoned. Unfortunately the land and animals they have decimated will never come back.
I quit gaming, I will retire to the woods
>>739698150Look up PC component prices for a little giggle.
>>739698137>Didn't that console just had a price hike as wellNope, the $50 increase doesn’t happen for months, stupid :)
>>739698207and the 1tb was already considered overpriced, crazy times we live in
>>739696846>muh optimization
>>739698137remind me then, how much are the switch 2 and deck increasing in price?
>>739694668Not going to sticky this like when the steam deck was originally announced? What about the "Gabe just killed Nintendo" threads? Feeling like making any of those?
>>739698207>Meanwhile I bought Switch 2 for 460 euros Feels good not being brown.
>>739698070Strictly speaking:Steal Tax money, money from investors, and money from advertisers.The whole>You own nothingSchpiel is a completely insustainable pivot because AI is currently imploding.This is not a long term plan and if you thought AT ALL about the logistics of literally the entire fucking planet's compute needs being pumped into a data center you'd know how retarded that is.Even without the extra strain from jeets using it to do the needful for elon musk.
>>739698070When the "bubble" "pops" they'll be for streaming games and apps to your thin client device, subscription required obviously.
>>739698137Nintendo don't need shills. SW2 is the fastest selling console in history
>>739698271>almost 300$ for 36g DRR4nah dog, get me out this nightmare
refurbed ones are still cheapI got the 512GB refurbished and it works perfectly
Oh valve is like retarded retarded. Who ever gaben is handing over the reins to in the inevitable situation of his retirement.That nigga hates you.
>>739698070They allow you for generating funny cat videos and doing knowledge dump on things that you will need to sanity check anyway, as it WILL fucking lie to you more often than you imagine
>>739698070mass surveillance.
>>739698289>>739697794lel the shills are reusing the same images
>>739698289whats even more deranged is that the switch 2 price increase is 30 euros here in yurop in september while the Deck price increase is 300 euros, literally 10x as much for hardware that is in some way worse than Switch 2.
>people still think the steam machine will ship under $1000at this point just cancel that shit. no one is going to spend a grand on a ps5 equivalent prebuilt with no upgrade path.
>>739698249This is implying its akin to nfts or something, its changing the landscape of work drastically and theres not really a way to go back, the worst that will happen is that energy production doesnt keep up with demand which will just make everything more expensive
>>739698328Nigger that isn't sustainable either.
>Steam DICK now over $10000 >Nintendo is thriving with the Switch 2, the most coveted console of all time>Everyone in the world finally hates Steam like they should of from the beginning >Valve's stock is plummeting >PC Gaming is officially dead This is the best night of my life. Nintendo always wins. Keep bragging about emulating Switch games at -1000 FPS on a console that costs over twice the amount of the Switch 2.
>>739698064Very disingenuous and points to immediate shit taste if you think Nintendo EPD and other first party devs associated with Nintendo aren't some of the best in the industry still. Sorry it just does. As far as AAA is considered only maybe Capcom and Fromsoft make as good or better games on average. Both of them are heavily working with Nintendo too because all their fellow Japanese are gaming on the Switch.
>>739698353mean to>>739698260
>>739698320browns cannot buy steam decks
>>739695515>for $800Dude they just made it clear it will be more than $1000. Valve will never get this shit off. People will make fun of them for a decade.
>>739698137>$50 increase that they tell you about 4 months in advance vs a $200/300 overnight price increaseIronic you post Sodachi
>>739694668faggot jeets deserve it for shitting up this board with their consolewarfaggotry
>>739697582Oh wow! Totally! I should drop everything and go and buy an underpowered toy tablet to play dogshit toddler games all for $90+tax+ 10$ online +$5 dollar mic privileges! Even better is being charged $70 for games made 3 gens ago. Thank you Transgendo! Truly the bastion of modern vydia
>valve falling to jewish levelsIt's over, the last bastion of hope in gaming is gone
Want another funny one?Meta/Google/Amazon/Nvidia/etc are not even the ones building the vast majority of datacenters, most of them are being built by investment groups hoping to sell the compute back to the big players in a big goldrush to cash in on AI/Compute Samsung/SKhynix are also delaying plans for new factories because it keeps prices high.
>>739698423Keep bragging about nogames
>>739697540>Is there anything in life that's actually getting cheaperYour Mom
>>739698368
>>739698423>Valve>stock retarded nigger detected
>>739698398I would pay 3000$ for the Steam Machine.I hope Valve makes it as expensive as possible to filter out consoletards
>>739694668Jesus christ this means the Steam Machine is MINIMUM $1000. It's over. Nintendo won. Sony won.
Oh look the switch 2 is back to being the best deal by far
>>739698346If only Nintendo actually believes you ...
>>739698368If you think ANUS or MS is absorbing the costs, you're out of your mind. The only reason that price hasn't spiked yet is because old stock isn't moving. That'll change real soon with the Deck delivering this reality check, so you tech illiterate browns better buy what you want fast.
>>739698367>lcd deckabsolute garbage
>>739698368Isnt this like 3 times faster than Deck too? It also had AMOLED screen. I guess fat fuck needs to speed up building yachts in his new 400milly company lmao.
>>739694668If you can't afford it you aren't white.
Deen status?
But I don't like Nintendo games. Why would I get a Switch 2?
>>739698540There already is a $3000 Steam Machine and it’s called building your own fucking PC.
>>739698204Many tendietrannys are saying this.
>steam machine will be able to compete with a ps5 bro
>>739694668Damn that's a massive price hike, I bought a 512GB OLED Deck 2 years ago but I might sell it now at a profit. I use my PC and Switch 2 more often so it's a bit redundant outside of portable emulation.
He tried to warn you but you guys just laughed and called him a doomer.
>>739697540pizza and tvs have stayed cheap for some reason
>>739698559if your definition of deal excludes the goycattle console vendor lock in that removes hundreds in value that is
>>739698549How the fuck are Sony and Nintendo able to keep prices so low during this RAM shortage? And Nintendo in particular only raised prices because their investors wanted them to.
>>739698540You would pay $3000 for a cut down mobile RX 7600? I think you might be the retard tbqh
>>739698497keep bragging about $1000 console that is weaker than the switch 2, has no actual games, has hundreds of hours of configuring to play games and thousands of hours of tinkering to play the nintendo games you want to fucking bad you pussy fucking loser :)Nintendo won :)Stay in your own fucking lane next time, TROON
>Does something>loses
>>739696085The fewer browns in my video games, the better
>>739698368I'm still not buying handheld without trackpads.
>>739698602PCs will be $6000 by the time steam machine debuts at $4000 MSRP.
>>739696824Replace it with a picture of Jensen and it'll be accurate.
why do people still have kids and expect them to just be a slave and then ridicule them for not succeeding in this kiked world?
Nintendo will sell the most units of hardware again for another generation. Crazy comeback after Wii U disaster.
so... is Switch 2 actually a better choice now?
>>739694668So these were the consoles they received. Lol.Yeah the Steam Cube is definitely gonna be over $1k.Maybe china meeting DDR5 Ram demands will smooth things other but holy crap I'm glad I got 2 of these when I did.
>WAHHHHH THIS WORLD CHANGING TECHNOLOGY IS MAKING MY TOYS MORE EXPENSIVEholy fuck grow up
>>739696486kys antisemite and retarded muslim sympathizer
>>739698639They aren't, once their bulk deals are spent they'll raise prices again.
>>739698519From the testing I've seen there is almost no performance difference at 15w, and going higher power just shreds batteries. Tho I do know people who play on their handheld on the couch and plugged in.
>>739698686we're just going to ignore the switch 1 then?
>>739698595It's literally a social status in Japan.
>>739698070Were in the endgame
>>739698696Now yes.
>>739698641The Steam Deck™ library spans decades of gaming. The Switch Poo library is 3 mario rehashes and a 20 dollar rom from 20 years ago
>>739698639Volume, they sell millions of units a year, Valve sells maybe a million. In terms of negotiating with memory companies Valve are less relevant than a Chinese tablet maker.
>>739698426Sorry I'm just not interested in Nintendo games, you're not going to get me to buy this thing. I'm tired of buying Nintendo consoles every gen just for them to collect dust since I drop every game I buy for it outside of Smash Bros.>fellow JapaneseMost mega corps care little for profiting off a country with a soon to be Zimbabwean currency which is why they focus on the global audience a lot more, it simply makes them more money. And not even Japs play multiplats on the Switch, it's the weakest current gen gaming device by a fucking landslide so it's objectively the single worst way to play them. Period.
>>739698686to be fair Steamdeck was never competition, only deranged chronically online retards would think that.
>>739698678>why do people still have kidsthey aren't. Every first world country is well below replacement level, even worse if you were to filter out first generation immigrants breeding like rabbits.Humanity just wants to die out at this point.
>>739698243>retarded pcbro thinks his point makes sense
>>739698696Always was
>>739698696>so... is the fisher price walled garden with no games a better choice now?
>>739695061George Caciopio, president of playstation network when it happened, got caught trying to fuck a boy. You got the wrong console maker, buddy
>>739698696Always wasAlways will be
>>739695484>>739696574>page keeps bugging out and reloading>"you've been trying to make too many purchases, please wait a moment and try again later"
>>739698639They're burning their stock and money hoping for a burstthey'll all have to substantially increase prices again soonTM
macbook neo: $599 USDcan play anything on ryujinx (switch 1) and whatever else on retroarchis also a laptop.how is APPLE a better value than STEAM in 2026.
Literally brown genocide Based Gabe
>>739698742But I don't live in Japan?I live in based Europe and nobody here has a Shitch because we don't buy children's toys.
>>739698207Massive price difference. Shit sucks, especially for those that was saving up for it. A price increase with the hardware not being better is a piss take. I hate every faggot responsible to shitting up the PC part prices.
>>739698696>So.... is the reliable high quality console with exclusives that's lightweight with great graphics is better than the giant brick linux box that has you quite literally can't plug and play games is a better deal?
>yfw you bought a steam deck before the price increase
Lol decktroons on total suicide watch holy shit
>>739698818anon the Canis isnt even out yet.
>>739698743How long till the bubbles pop?
>>739698875sell it and buy a 5070 ti
>>739698794It wasn't competition because it was over before it came out.Everyone lost to PCs.
>>739694668We voted for this.
>>739694896why would someone buy a switch in this situation. you only do that if your wanting to play nintendo games.
I got the first batch of the OG Steam Deck back in the day. I got the 256GB one which was at like 500 bucks because the 64GB had a longer wait time. It was still a great purchase back then and it still works great. That being said the new prices are insane and you should not buy it.
>>739698790>I'm tired of buying Nintendo consoles every gen just for them to collect dust since I drop every game I buy for it outside of Smash Bros.What must play games is PC or Sony supplying you that they aren't?
>>739694668it's so fucking over. gaming is finished
>>739698639They have stocked inventory and contracts made years in advance and for years to come. Sony,Nintendo and MS do this they negotiate price years before they even finalize design of hardware and manufacturers have to keep price as on contract due to obligations or get raped in courts. Thats why people dooming about price of PS6 and even Xbox Helix are wrong and why I legit believe Xbox Helix might be geniuenly really fucking good shitbox for price MS will ask for.
>>739698917I already got one
>>739698775>No actual argument>Doesn't deny the hours of configurations because literally no games are made for linux so you need to run through a gorillion hoops to get anything playingI accept your concession :)
>>739698639They are bigger companies and have contracts/deals with suppliers. Meanwhile Valve is tiny in comparison and actually went around begging manufacturers to sell them shit.Basically economies of scale.
>>739698917>buy a shit value card that's tied down to jeetdows
>microsoft raises prices>they're greedy>sony raises prices>they're greedy>nintendo raises prices>they're greedy>valve raises prices>i-it's ai's fault
kinda ass that all the AI hardware can't be reused for personal computer once that shit isn't needed anymore
>>739695118you know the prices went up because components wholesale are more expensive right?
Man, I have a first gen deck and the battery is degrading, it hasn't got the improved adhesive for easy battery removal like later models have. I feel kinda screwed in terms of getting the battery replaced unless I send it off to a specialist place.
>>739694668> a fucking grand for the same 'eckWhew, lad.
>>739698916Until one of the big AI companies blows up overnight because of a trillion dollar hole they covered up until nowIt will be very sharp
>>739697369>why did they bow down and worship current color in office instead of standing on "principles" and losing money/power?are you 12?
>>739698989the deck is optional, consoles are the only way you can access their ecosystem and you have no control or independence inside of it
>>739698864>Yurostani getting uppityGet stabbed lol
>>739698956In an ideal world consoles should still cost $500 or under, even if they have a premium version that costs more.
>tfw you own a steam deck and a high end PC way before the prices shit happened
Project Canis is gonna be $800 and it'll get to $1000 with price hikes mark my words
>>739698935yeah if you got one at release then you've had a good few years out of it and paid less.it's not a good deal any more.
>>739698875I bought the original Steam Deck when it had the very first 10% discount. It got a bigger discount later when they wanted LCD stock gone in favour of the new OLED stock.
>>739698698genuinely, hang yourself
>>739698962>filtered by 5 minutes of setup time to unlock all of gaming's history besides the last 10 years (which is not relevant anyway)
>>739698989People are blaming AI on Sony and MS's raises too tho.
>>739699069My fellow Series S chad
realistically, is the endgame to make all hardware insanely expensive so people pay for stream services?>you will only stream your PC
So we said it about everyone else, given Valve has the highest price increase by both dollar amount and percent of overall price that makes them the MOST Jewish game company right?
>>739698940>SnoyI don't buy this piece of shit lol, but considered the PC has every single game ever made in existence outside of nu-DK and that shitty Mario Kart I would be listing games for hours. Right now I'm just playing D4 and waiting for PoE 2's new season, before that I was playing Rogue Trader.
I feel like this is pretty much Valve signaling that no, the steam box won't be 700 fucking dollars. I'm glad I have the deck OLED though, damn. How do I get away with it so often? I buy a 9070xt just a month before it goes up in price 200€, I buy a mac mini M4 on discount 2 weeks before the base model outright fucking disappears, it's amazing.
>>739699004you can build a PC with older ddr4 ram that is dirty cheap and still being produced, storage is also not a problem since any cheap ass entry-level kingstom nvme will do
Why is Valve so evil and why are Steamies defending their unabashed greed?
>>739698969Not him but are there any value for money GPUs anymore? In my country at least prices never went down after crypto and scalpers ruined the prices.
>>739699139Series S is goated, reasonably priced, and compact. Stop making consoles the size of a fucking PC tower.
>>739699180i don't see them forcing you to buy specific hardware to play their games
I couldn't care less about the Steam machine but I still hope it stays around because I want Linux to get bigger.
>>739698864anon if you actually lived in Yurop you would know that PC+ [insert current Nintendo console here] has become way more popular after Sony completely fucked up and abandoned any attempt to look fair in our market, thats why they are being sued all the fucking time.
>>739695061How when Nintendo is absolutely devoid of any social features like voice-chat or god forbid text-chat?
PCfags will still try to tell you it's worth it at almost 1000 dollars lmao
>>739699130>5 minute set up timeyou and I know that's a lie. Plus, Switch 2's set up time is 0 seconds. >Admits his console is weak and it can't play anything remotely new>Acts like he didn't want to anywayWe just keep winning. If I were a Valvetroon I think I would have joined the 56% by now
>>739698926Only by using chatgpt, claude and grok
>>739699074Same, but now I want a Frame and I'm getting chills
Erictranny status?
>>739699005You can get valve to repair it even if its not in warranty, just got to pay for it. Goto steam support.
>>739694668>Nintendo haters dooming and glooming the measly 50$ increase in S2.>Then Deckies get a 200$ increase.Nintendo fans win again.
>>739698864I saw a man playing a Switch 2 on the tram just last weekend. Finland btw.
>>739694668>STEAM MACHINE NOW 1k MINIMUM>STEAM MACHINE NOW 1k MINIMUMlmao doa
>>739699180Just the biggest bitch company that can't secure good deals for memory unlike MS and Sonychads.
>>739699218The funny thing is they were responsible for the worst thing that's ever happened to gaming with opening up the storefront to infinity jeets in 2014 but we're not ready for that conversation yet
>>739698589The company that sells the Steam Deck makes 10s of billions of dollars in profit each year, so it's ok for them to drastically increase the price and fuck over their customers(who allow them to make the billions of dollars?).
>>739694668I paid 800 bucks for a laptop that outperforms this paperweight by a country mile lmao and that was just in november
>>739699281looks like karma is branching out.
>>739699242>anon if you actually lived in Yurop you would know that PC+ [insert current Nintendo console here] has become way more popular after Sony completely fucked up and abandoned any attempt to look fair in our market, thats why they are being sued all the fucking time.Lol no
i bought a prebuilt gaming pc (1060) on credit with like 30% interest.I only have to pay $100USD a month though. So not too bad.My steam deck battlestation will finally get replaced. It's been my online gaming device for 6 months+
>why yes, I will take TWO steam decks.
>>739699235Oh so the steam deck includes a controller and a dock right?Surely it doesn't cost nearly twice the price of a switch 2 and not have either of those, right?
>>739699216Ddr4 ram still went up in price
>>739699281moral of the story:>two losers throwing shit at each other don't make a winner
how did they get away with this?
>>739699254>you and I know that's a lie.>Download retroarch>Download roms>Done
>>739699298More like 1.5k minimum and only increasing with each day
>>739699281>the measly 50$ increase in S2.for nowin two months it's going to be +150 because the bubble still hasn't popped
>>739699374No games, mainly
>>739699281tendies think they're getting a deal on a locked down toy when they pay $70 for 10 hour babby games and worst multiplats
>>739698916>How long till the bubbles pop?I think it'll be more like a balloon slowly deflating as Microsoft, Google, etc. slowly stop subsidising AI Slop
>>739699106Yep. At this point might as well get something else. I can get a better device for much less right now. Idk what Valve is thinking. I understand components are more expensive but the point of a Steam Deck is to get new users on Steam. So it being sold for a small loss isn't that bad.
>>739699316didnt even pretend to be white
>>739699281It’s hilarious. Every time they get hit with uno reverse card and have to take 4 more on top of that
so is this a last hurrah before they discontinue the deck? get it now before its gone for good kind of thing?
>>739699374valve fanboys are the biggest gaming cult out there.
>>739699336the great thing about PCs is you have thousands of games to play via emulation, plus older games. I have a modern PC but I still like playing Deus Ex for example.
>>739699074I was a waitfag saving up money to buy a high end build when the prices went to shit. I am still a wait fag. Currently using a high end 2019 build which isn't high end anymore and I still have the 'eck if my PC bricks and I don't want to pay for replacement parts.
>>739699180That's probably because it was priced very low.
>>739699180That was true over a decade ago. They were one of the main reasons loot boxes became a thing.
What nobody else noticed, they increased the steam deck dock by $30 tooWhere is the memory in that? fucking cunts.
>>73969933630% interest???You need a fucking budget.
>>739698916It'll pop when the US gov stops investing billions into it and stops bailing out Sam Altman.
Bought this baby for $900 "used" (it was new). Best decision I ever made before everyone started jacking up their prices.
>>739699316didnt even pretend you arent brown
>>739699396In two months it will still be $450 because the $50 hike doesn’t happen until September, negro
>>739699281See you in a few months when Nintendo raises the price again. :)
>>739698829How does it play pragmata?
>>739699336>30% interestis this a joke
>>739699336>1060>on creditwhat the fuck
>>739699396The price hike doesn't even hit till September for America
>>739699348the deck controller is actually ergonomic so you don't have to rip it offand valve isn't locking off hardware performance behind a piece of plastic that does nothing worthwhile
So they cost as much as an ally and ally x? I guess you gotta pay a premium for touch pads.
>>739699512I bought one brand new. Did the price for this also shoot up?
the steam machine will actually cost $2000 in this shithole
>>739694668Valve cultists will defend this when just two weeks ago they shit on other companies for doing the exact same thing.
>>739699281Every accussation is a confession.
>>739699164Every "tech leader" in the world would never have to use Viagra again if they had to force everybody to pay a subscription to use a computer
>>739699374many games, mainly
>>739699518nigga the 50 buck hike was them saying "it'll burst soon trust"they're not going to tank the rest of the increase much longer, their stock is running low and margins negative
>nintendofags keep fellating their $500 console but don't mention the online cost, every game costing 60$ +, mandatory $10 upgrades for games from the switch 1>meanwhile steamchads just using their 20+ year old library with no extra costsno matter how you look at it pc wins.
>>739694668>900+ for outdates as fuck hardware when you can pick up an rog for the same price but better performance at this point you're paying for brand loyalty
>>739699365only the faster modules, 2400 mhz modules are still dirty cheap and won't impact your gaming performance in any significant waythe difference going from 16gb of ddr4 2400mhz ram to 16gb of ddr5 10000mhz ram is 1-2 fps tops, depending on the game there will be no difference at all
>>739699495Valve is well aware that they have a cult which will pay any price with the Steam logo on it.
>>739699281It's still funny these niggers believe the PS6 handheld and steam cube is going to be around $400-500
>>739697430Normalfags don't give a shitAs long as they can get high or drunk while watching nigs throw a ball on T.V. while gambling, they'll accept anything that happensEverything will just gradually get worse and rot because they're all drugged
>>739699495Shitty as that might be no one bought the official one
>>739698962nearly every single non linux game i pirate going back to the mid 2000's and put on it just works with proton. maybe the most configuring ive had to do is add an installer to steam to run with proton, run it to install the game then add the games exe to steam and remove the installerthe only main problem you will face is old games that dont have proper gamepad support and many of those you can still get working flawlessly or well enough with not much effort>>739699254for emulation you just install emudeck or whatever and then i copied and pasted 16,000 games into the roms folder and 99.9% of them seem to work flawlessly. and then you can browse them in the nice gamepad based GUI and even automatically download media for them all to browse them with previews of the covers, preview videos and even have the entire game manuals scanned in in very high detail and see all kinds of great artwork for all the games in the manuals and game covers and stuff in super high res. literally takes 5 minutes, but the media downloading takes longer because it of course has to download lots of videos and high res images but thats just something you start and leave it alone and come back a little later and hundreds of games now have covers and everything
>>739699139Basado fellow Series S bro. I own that box for years and have no issues. With dev mode it can emulate majority of shit too. That console is easily best deal now even after price hikes.
>>739699336>1060>100 a monththe fuck dude? you can one of those pieces of shit off ebay for $10 haggled down to a rock and a stick of gum
>>739699575IIRC they increased the price last month.
>>739699281Anon... Switch 2 was already overpriced by 300 dollars.
Asha and xbox won.
>everything keeps going up while wages stay the samewhat does this lead to, eventually
How does it cost as much as a fucking Ally XThe touchpads are not worth 300 bucks
>>739696345If you think prices will ever go back down, you were never paying attention. Same with the gas prices, 10$ a gallon is the new normal, get used to it
>>739699552>Having less things included in my purchase is good actually Yea yea okay Steamcattle, another 10 cents to the Valve headquarters in Tel Aviv
>>739699523>Valve gaping my anus is ok because there’s a chance that maybe, probably, in my dreams Nintendo will raise the price tooLeast cultist Steamie
>>739699523They'd have to raise it 6 more times to be as expensive as the steam brick lel
>>739694668But why???
>1tb model is more expensive than a 2tb ps5 pro>still weaker than a switch 2HOLY KEK
>>739694668I bought my 256GB Steam Deck for $320 last October, did I make it out like a bandit? I still feel ripped off, the Steam Deck wasn't as great as it was hyped to be. At least this means I can sell it for the amount I pay for if not higher to profit.
>>739699462same anon, using a 2019 build, hoping here it doesn’t break in the next 5 years
>>739699495thats not even true retard, same price since last year.
Why doesn't Valve just hand out massive steam coupon codes with their hardware sales? they can generate that shit out their assholes and they only get 30% of third party game sales on steam anyway so the opportunity cost isn't even that high
>>739696424>tfw have a good enough PC, switch 2 from launch, and a launch 64gh steam deck which I put a 1tb ssd in before prices got stupidGod it feels good to be early But also holy shit this economy is busted as fuck. Every fucking thing is about squeezing the consumer these days. Have a problem? Charge more. That is what these companies do. They build elaborate pricing models just to say "yeah we gotta fuck the consumers just a bit harder if we want to maintain our 50% margin"Fucking scum
>>739699631PC wins. Steam Deckies lost. No one is paying $1000 for 8 year old hardware lmao
>>739699648>2400 mhz modules are still dirty cheap and won't impact your gaming performance in any significant wayThat's slower than the ram I got for 80€ in 2019. You sound utterly domesticated.
>>739699727Xbox ally x is $1k. Xbox ally is $600
>>739699724https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
>>739699374Cheapest solution is still Series S anon.
>>739699724nothing. Young people simply have a lot of spare money because they refuse to raise kids. So prices will continue going up.
>>739699693lol I had a 1070 just sitting here collecting dust that I would've literally given away to this dude for free if I knew how hard up he was
>>739699794now look up pc component prices
>>739699610>stockJesus Christ fucking Pcbros lmao
>>739699724Everybody keeps on not doing shit except complaining on an imageboard and then going back to their increasingly terrible lives
>>739699727It's a cult even worse than Nintendo. If the deck was $2000 you will still have people saying it's good value because of infinite games on PC or something lol
>>739694668OH NONOT YOU TOO GABE-SAMA
>>739699376>Take hours finding an emulator>Take hours setting up the configurations, bios and everything else>Take hours downloading hundreds of roms>screenshot it for /v/ >Don't play the games>wasted days of your life doing this when you could have spent half the price for the games to be one button press away
>>739697071I be honest but right now the Steam Deck ain't worth it. As someone who got the Switch 2 on Clearance on my local Costco and a Day 1 Steam Deck I can tell you that the Switch 2 is definitely better screen size wise and performance wise. While the SD have the advantage of being a PC and having tons and tons of games and emulators for someone who isn't technical and just want to play games the Switch 2 right now is much better. The SD is way too expensive now.
>>739699794I bought the 64gb years ago and put a 1TB drive in it. Sucks to suck, poorfag waitfag
>>739694668NINTENDIES, YOU ARE NEXT!
>>739699336>i bought a prebuilt gaming pc (1060) on credit with like 30% interest.
>>739699591Except they won't. It's the same everywhere, even if you bought a prebuilt PC or built it yourself the increase will happen everywhere. No company is going to sell hardware at a loss.
>>739699526well thats switch 2 so you'd have to try crossover (play pc games).but it can play RE4 so who knows. im just saying it's pretty neat for an emulation device, not just a useful laptop. I use HDMI out to my TV and can play switch games on it (or other emulator stuff).
>>739699724Dude Peter Thiel literally wants to kill humanity. He thinks the ideal future is everyone uploading their brains into machines to live forever (this kills you)
>>739699738Post switch 2 specs
>>739699738>Having less things included in my purchase is good actually this but nintendoyour screen is a shit tier IPS instead of an OLED, your battery capacity is less than half, your controllers are unergonomic as shit, your CPU is complete piece of trash, you have 4gb less RAMand most importantlyyou don't own your hardware
>>739699790>Why doesn't Valve just steal some other companies games as a pack in bonusBecause they're not retarded.
>>739699797I just don't see the reason to overspend when I can get cheap stuff that does the same job, PC is better because of this, you can actually still get affordable and competitive rigs
>>739699820>young people have spare money because they refuse to raise kidsBoomer fuckwit. Young people aren't raising kids BECAUSE they have no money.
lmaoman valve is literally one of the few companies that could totally fucking tank the price increase enjoy buying gabe another yacht
>>739699724everyone keeps buying it anyway, so nothingeveryone has the latest GPU, everyone buys the latest games
post >yfwyou bagged a steam deck during the 300 dollar fire sale
>>739699836You can get a PC with better specs than the steam deck for $1000 and it ain't even close. Thr only thing it has going for it anymore is portability, and even then it doesn't justify the price tag.
>>739699790Is this the Warframe guy?
>>739699809they are removing them from shops and stopped production right now, in 2 years there will be Helix that will be another $1000+ machine
>>739699790I honestly thought they were going to do that since it's a great idea on paper, but with this price increase and no sign of gift cards, I don't think they're going this route.>>739699905>stealthey'd be the ones paying them
>>739699883they already announced a 30 euro price hike coming in September though?
>>739699883>least obsessed Steamie
>>739699253>PCfags will still try to tell you it's worth it at almost 1000 dollars lmaoMore worth than a PS5 with no gaems
>>739699495its the same price.
>>739699791it isn't sustainable. things are gonna get bad if regular people can't build a PC or even get a prebuilt cause 32 gigs of RAM is $5000.the good news is my existing PC will last even longer than before cause building right now is not feasible for many users.
>price increased for valve tablet. pEdoRIC and sony'ggers SOMEHOW more affected.
>>739699227depends on your definition of value and your countryin general, the 9070 and the xt are the best value cards you can get with the closest nvidia card being the 5070
>>739699930It's better to reward a man that treats his customers with dignity than to reward Sony or Nintendo who constantly shit on their customers
>>739699805>he thinks modern society would repeat thatAnon they had one common enemy while nowadays direction leaning golems would never stand with eachother against rich ghouls. Ones will bitch about wite pepo others about shitskins and trannies lmao. They won.
>>739699631But I bought star fox for $50??? Where is the $60+ number fromNot that Valve even makes games to sell, they're too busy making overpriced Jewish hardware to sell to their goycattle cult as the Apple of gaming
>>739697876>our sons and daughterThey're making sure we have less and less of those
>>739699253Nah, you can get a claw 8ai or ally x for that price.
>>739699878No, the Deck just stopped being worth buying, the Switch 2 is still a gameless first model of nintendo handheld scam with shoddy screen and oversized power hungry node that eats its battery faster than you can say Mario Kart World is the most lifeless Mario Kart I've ever played and its soundtrack puts me to sleep.
>>739699930What if they tanked it already and this is the price? Gaming is so fucking over
>>739699974Portability was always a meme, you've been able to attach a controller and stream to your phone forever. The OLED Deck at least has a really nice screen but yeah.
>>739699316Most steam users are thirdie/chink poorfags lel
>>739699930You can have all the money in the world but if all stock is gone you can't buy what ain't there.
Valve was supposed to be the savior of gaming. GabeN was supposed to be jesus....
>>739699281remember when that image of every game publisher shooting themselves except valve and nintendo was going around so steamies had a big meltie and edited it so nintendo's shooting themselves toolol, don't suppose that image is getting edited to valve shooting itself as well now, it's literally okay when gabe does it, they really are the biggest cocksucking fanboys in the industry even though they try act above it all
>>739700073>tendies will literally buy a remaster of a 30 yo game for 50$LMAOOOOOO
>>739700070Multibillionaires aren’t your friends
>>739700115*buys another Yacht*
Guys, guys. We just have to wait for the new fabrication plants to get online which will takes like 5 years
You will never be white.
>>739699964sadly, not: but i sold dota 2 and CS2 items to help pay for it. so it was almost free.
>people still think the machine and deck 2 will be cheapLulz
>999 bucks>24gb of ram>z2 extreme with ai cores for free superscaling>steamtranny status: assdevastated
>>739699875youre tech illiterate
>>739699875>Take hours finding anRetroarch can be downloaded right through flathub>Take hours setting uRetroarch already has configs for the Steam Deck>Take hours downThe entire NES, SNES, and GB/C library fits on one DVD>screenshot it for /v/Maybe, you can actually do that on a Steam Deck>Don't play the gamesReplied Rhythm Heaven GBA last night>Wasted daMaybe an Hour and a half at worst and the price difference falls off because switch/2 games are overpriced wii u ports.
>>739700013>Pay Valve $1000 to play the games you already have on SteamLmao
As a consolidation Valve need to drop their 30% cut down to 5-10% and allow games to get cheaper.
>>739699901Much better than DeckAnd cheaper, since Nintendo isn't the Apple of gaming like Valve is
>>739699990No they didnt the fuck you're talking about? I work in retail and we still get Xbox consoles. I also have a friend in eastern eu and even their branch still gets Xbox consoles to sell directly from MS while they need to use third party vendors for Switch 2 for example.
please make another thread, I wanna see steamtrannies coping for a little longer
>>739694668is valve fucking people now? wtf. these price increases seem way higher than what the market constraints are creating.
>>739700150Who's talking about friendship here, tourist? It's about being treated with dignity and respect, which I absolutely am when dealing with Valve, not the same story when it comes to Sony or Nintendo
26 year old game btw:
>>739700070>nintendo shits on their customersno they don't
>>739700189>was released as a "premium" handheld compared to the 'eck>'eck costs as much as one nowGabe???
>>739700224Already in the oven, baking.
>>739700164I wouldn't even if I could, this looks worse than some seedy mobile game that keylogs you. Is this the absolute state of tendies now? Bragging about this garbage?
>>739699336This is the average PCMR larper BTW
>Steam Deck Price Hike thread>majority of the posts is PCniggers defending their friends at valve while crying about the switch 2great thread
>>739700258>which I absolutely am when dealing with Valve,lol keep at it slave. Gabe's second mega yacht isn't going to pay for itself.
>>739700282why do election tourists write shit like this
>>739700207>Replied
seems like a fair deal, no?
>>739700258>It's about being treated with dignity and respect, which I absolutely am when dealing with ValveBAHAHAAAAA
>>739700349Congratulations on taking the bait.
Finally valve babies can get a cheaper hobby, like Warhammer and stay away from gaming.
>>739700249not really considering that it's ram AND storagetheir decisions to stop making lower storage models bit them in the ass greatly
>>739700370For 1080p at 60fps, yes.
>>739700370no, that's shit
>>739700212>Much better than deck>12gb ram and novidya cpu and phone ssd and less battery Based retard
>>739699805Never ever happening, we love juice
>>739700419literally all i play is dota 2. this is fine.
I miss the 600 bucks ps3>but inflationmy pay hasn't doubled
>>739700370>Nvidia>5060>8GBNo.
>>739700456>literally all i play is dota 2Based
>>739700212>Nintendo isn't the Apple of gamingyou're playing overpriced indie tier games on hardware whose sole redeeming quality is the nintendo logo
>>739700426Still runs cyberpunk at 4k while the steam deck runs at 320p upscaled.
>>739700370I only buy a new PC in the middle of a console generation. PS6/Helix are out in 18 months. So, maybe sometime around 2030. By then, maybe I can get a PC that can run a local LLM.
>>739700370>8GB VRAMHOO HEEE HAA HOO HEEHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHA!!!
>>739700456And then niggers like yourself come on here, and have the audacity to talk about actual vidya. Please die.
>>739695118>At this price point just build a PCat these prices just buy a mac book pro. I bought an m1 max in the fall for $1000 and it will rape a steam deck. it's time to just play older games now. vibe max with a macbook and emulate gamecube up to switch. fuck em'
>>739700456Then its fine. I have a shitty 5060ti and I am running most stuff on ultra, 1080p, rtx on, etc and get at least 60fps.
>>739700370It's better than a deck, but still overpriced. Look for 16GB ram minimum.
>>739700517lmao, sounds like someone who couldn't cut it. stick to your roleplaying games, faggot
Fuck it, Im getting a damn switch2
>>739700501>runs cyberpunk at 4klmfao do tendies really believe this? No way you aren't trolling. It can't even run Phantom Liberty at 1080 upscaled at 30 fps with 99.9% of NPCs removed
>>739700489But enough about the $1000 steam deck.
>the scalped deck I bought four years ago is a steal now
>>739700524Honestly, if that pile of shit ever gets to run Linux proper someday it won't be a bad deal at all.
PC + switch 2 remains the way to go, or deck (pre hike)
>>739700560That's the 16gb version, yes? Can it run expedition 33 at max settings?
>>739700524>macbookYou're on the right track. Now use that just for shitposting, and buy PS + Switch for gaming on a big screen.
>>739700210 the publishers would just pocket that difference lmao
>>739694668>Your PC exists>Steam Link exists so you can play your PC game on your houseWhy the fuck you need this is beyond me
>>739700692but the hardware is objectively better than what nintendo peddlesyour screen is a shit tier IPS instead of an OLED, your battery capacity is less than half, your controllers are unergonomic as shit, your CPU is complete piece of trash, you have 4gb less RAMand most importantlyyou don't own your hardware
>>739698639Valve can't shift nearly as much hardware as Nintendo or Sony
>>739700739the macbook neo (cheap, but good) is an amazing ryujinx device. got it for a laptop to do stuff with and with good battery life, but it emulates everything up to and including switch 1.VERY good value, from Apple which is surprising but true.
"You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted ... He is a sociopath. He would do anything."
>muh graffiks!idk why ppl are so obsessed with this: even when i had SLI 1070TI / i7 7700k 5.0GHZ i still ran everything almost as low as possible because i like seeing FPS number high.
Well I know what I'll be buying!
>>739700729Nah, I have the shitty 5060ti 8vram version. The performance difference isn't that huge at 1080p
>Nintendo fans buy S2 to play exclusives.>Deckies buy 1k shut to play Indie shovelware.Lmao.
>>739699336You didn't do this. You aren't this stupid. I refuse to believe you're this stupid.
>>739700852How's 2011? You need ridiculously powerful hardware for bad looking games now.
YOU VILL OWN NOTHING
>>739700808Apple keeps their prices in check for now while everyone else does retarded price hikes so its not Apple having good value but market is so fucked now that their overpriced shit seems like good value which is very grim.
>>739699893Any laptop can do switch emulation, I don't get your point here
>$789>1280x800crazy how much things are regressing
>>739700874Okay, it's probably less than 30%. I don't know the math.
>>739700201There's a difference between being technologically illiterate and not wanting to spend more money to do more work for less games that actually playWould you rather>Pay $500 and be able to play everything you'd ever want by pressing one buttonor>Pay $1000, then $80 for a dock, then $100 for a controller, then $200+ for a monitor, then $300+ for a keyboard and mouse then go through countless tutorials for emulating an NES game that might not work on a device that has a battery that dies in less than 3 hours and a lower resolution than the first smartphones
I emulate Switch LOL!
>>739700209Jeet bot broke lol
>most of this thread is full of tendies trying and failing to shill the Switch 2This thread should've been PC adjacent and to discuss AI datacenters impact on components, not to talk about this irrelevant pile of dogshit that no one gives a fuck about except tendies. This piece of shit Deck could cost 2 million dollars and it still wouldn't justify buying a Switch 2 unless you like Nintendo games, they are completely unrelated.
Steamies lost and got raped!
>>739698639Sony isn't keeping shit low what the fuck are you parroting? The 5 pro is 900$ for fucks sake, that's a 200$ increase from when it released. And as of this post, the Switch 2 still hasn't had a price increase made effective
>>739700370Humiliation Ritual kek
>>739701047
>>739701047I bought this at costco. It didn't even come with a game. It came with a movie about Will Ferrel driving race cars.
Are prices on hardware going to surge again or something? I've been keeping an eye on things and prices have been mostly static, and in some cases where they scalped a little too hard, gone down.
>Fuck Nintendo!>But I will play their games!Why are PCturdes so jealous of Ninty?
>>739700948They're not keeping anything in check, they're just running with older prices they negotiated. Next year everything is going to shit.
Even steamie youtubers can't defend this lmao.
>>739700115Well he is JewishBut that's the only thing they share in common
>>739696556is this bait?valve is in the minor leagues as far as hardware is concerned, especially compared to the likes of dell and hp who ship tens of millions of units per yearthere's 0 chance valve can compete with them for allocation
>>739697430All the decomps and recomps are pretty sweet.
>>739701108Always liked this scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkz7akiGlvY
>>739701112It's not gonna go down anytime soon. Maybe at 2030 or if they kill us all with nuclear fallout.
>>739701146why would you want to play games on nintendo consoles?
>>739701107now post my bank account
>>739700370>APUslop and a 8 GB GPUHAHAHA OOOOOOOOOOOOH
>>739701146There are hundreds of millions of "PC gamers" in the world, not all play gay wahoo games. I didn't, even for free.
>>739700739>Now use that just for shitposting, and buy PS + Switch for gaming on a big screen.i use an HDMI to connect my macbook to my TV. been playing resident evil 7 biohazard. cool game. native from the app store. just beat bio shock 2. fired up sleeping dogs. played some 007 nightfire last week. vibing.
Why not just have a switch 2, an 'eck (or whatever), and a nice gaming PC? Why do we have to pick and choose?
Nintendo is inferior hardware. Their games would be better on literally anything else.
>>739700852>Turdie poorfag flexing his Roblox looking graphicsThe absolute state of PCfags
>>739701296this is a Steam Deck thread
>>739695340Should would be comfy like the 90s when people in shithole countries couldn’t afford it. You zoomers don’t know how comfy the internet was when it was just whites and japs.
>>739701260
>>739701295Because paperweights only cost $10 rather than 600 and that's about what the Switch 2 would amount to for me.
>>739701078Nintendochads wonSteamcucks lost
>>739701295No reason to own a Switch 2 now, at the very least it needs the revision without a shit screen and MAYBE some games worth anything will have come out by then. Anything else is deranged brand loyalist behavior.
>>739701451>chadsyou don't own your hardware
Total Switch 2 victory
>>739701146Sour grapes turdies
>>739701475nintendo wins, their drones lose, correct
>>739701379Thirdies will still have access to their phones even if they get priced out of PCs.
>>739701107>989 US DOLLARS>989 US DOLLARS>989 US DOLLARS
That's life, karma's a bitch
Should I just get a ROG Ally for emulation and low requirement games in my library at this rate?The new deck prices are insane
PC + S2 was the winning option from the start
>>739694668yea, the steam cube is dead on arrival. KEK.
>>739701470>you don't own your hardwareAnd you don't own your games steamcuck
>>739701468I never had a switch 1 and the screen is rather decent as-is. I can see how it would be underwhelming or pointless for someone with an OG switch at the moment, especially if the most recent exclusives don't tickle your pickle much. 500 bucks for Bananza or 60fps BotW is a big ask.
>>739701651just the pc, actuallyimagine betatesting that atrocious nintendo hardware they shat out
>>739701631Just get a PC and if you absolutely need handheld stream to your phone or buy a laptop, you'll thank me later.
>>739701675more than you, tendieyou don't have access to the files themselves, DRM completely pens you in like the cattle you are
>>739696342The steam machine only has 8GB of vram, which will be a limitation. PS5 has 16gb of unified memory so they can allocate it however they want. Could give the CPU 6 and GPU 10 for example. The PS4 had 8GB total which you seem to be confusing with the PS5.Also RDNA is the GPU not cpu. Speaking of which the GPU in the steam machine is a mobile variant of the RX7600. Similarly powerful to the base PS5(with a few more features) and absolutely weaker than the PS5 Pro’s GPUI like valve, but I wouldn’t spend 1k or more on this thing…
>>739701651S2 only actually All the steam games worth playing are already ported to Switch
>>739701631Yeah, they'll start flying off the shelves now. Streaming is for the brain damaged who can't feel massive latency.
>>739701826>shittier console versions of games
>>739695782>good>companies>2026
>>739701761Can we stop with these disingenuous comparisons? PS5 is a 6 year old console, Shitmachine should be compared to PS6 whenever that drops in a couple of years.
AMD are winding down production of the SOC that Valve are using so they can build more profitable chips, thanks to the fact Valve use a custom chip rather than something off the shelf they are getting bent over a barrel for them now
