And now it’s 50 bucks cheaper than it was on sale PLUS I could’ve just gotten a 512gb OLED instead for just a bit more??? Seems kind of messed up of Valve to discount a soon to be obsolete product without telling anyone the refresh is right around the corner. They really made it seem like the steam deck upgrade would be years away… Is it wrong to feel robbed?

  • Kamikaze-Radish@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I agree with this sentiment. I bought it in the last sale and got it delivered at the end of September.

    I too believed that the refresh is a long way off and nothing major (just WiFi 6e).

    It would be quite nice if there is an upgrade program for people who bought the deck so close to this new release. I’d gladly pay a bit to upgrade.

  • JimmyRecard@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    They said that the performance target will not change. It has not changed. Although the new Steam Deck has a slightly more efficient APU, the performance is virtually identical.

    Here’s the quote from Pierre-Loup Griffais:

    It’s important to us that the Deck offers a fixed performance target for developers, and that the message to customers is simple, where every Deck can play the same games. As such, changing the performance level is not something we are taking lightly, and we only want to do so when there is a significant enough increase to be had. We also don’t want more performance to come at a significant cost to power efficiency and battery life. I don’t anticipate such a leap to be possible in the next couple of years, but we’re still closely monitoring innovations in architectures and fabrication processes to see where things are going there.

  • gonezil@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Eh. It happens. Welcome to an economy based on fiat currency. Discounting a product in order to get your inventory down to zero? That’s just normal business practice. This was bound to happen with all the $1k portable alternatives out there. Valve continues to go for the better value solid product to sell more games on their storefront.

  • jcabia@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Literally every console does the same. The PS5 went on sale several times before they acknowledged the PS5 Slim was coming. It sucks but that’s how it is

    A few years ago I bought an Oculus Quest 1 and the Quest 2 released very soon after. I felt like a fool and I didn’t even get it on sale which is even worse because the Quest 2 was like 25% cheaper than the Quest 1. Did that make my quest 1 obsolete? No, I could still do everything I wanted when I first bought it