On the other hand, I might pick up a used Deck on the cheap for my kids…
They get what they deserve
Rip to me who literally bought mine 2 weeks ago, wish I waited… feel so used…
i bought a 256gb model three days ago lmfao
They’d be really mad if they could read
I bought them to sell because it’s the only way to turn steam credit into cash. I just put them up for auction though so all of mine sold.
I sold all my csgo skins in the peak of cs2 hype mania. My knife for example which was circa £300 I sold for £700 during the hype. Literally got more than double my money back on it.
Steam deck is pretty modular can’t folks just swap out the screen themselves?
I’ve been having the 64gb set at a better price bought online .and been playing it almost daily. Not sure I’d be changing to the OLED version , guess not as still very happy with it! 🫰😆
And then there are country’s like Switzerland in the centrum from Europe where you can’t order one.
Effectively making the top end deck pretty much the base model lmao
I don’t know is what they were thinking anyway haha, it’s been readily available for retail like 75% of its run.
I think these people are stuck on the covid gpu shortage mindset as if that were forever a permanent situation.
In Switzerland, we can only get a deck from resellers. I think the 512gb model was sold at 900 usd here. Some try to sell their used decks for even more lol
Scalpers can get fucked.
Hey bro, chill man, just supply and demand bro. I demanded 10 decks and will supply them to you for the cost of 20 decks pal.
I’m just providing a service. These things get cleared out of stores (because of me) and I’m giving people a chance to get one (from me)
I hate scalping because it negatively impacts me, but scalpers absolutely provides a service regardless of how scummy we think it is. Objectively speaking, scalping guarantees you a product that would’ve flown off the shelves just as fast at MSRP, but you pay a hefty premium for that guarantee
To give an example with the PS5. Scalpers buy up a whole supply. Middle aged gamer dad who doesn’t have the time to hunt for stock, which he still would’ve had to do without scalpers, sees an eBay listing. He has the money for it, so he says fk it and gets a PS5 way sooner than he would’ve othwrwise
Buying a scalped product is one of a few options for getting something in crazy high demand. You could wait anxiously for each supply drop to get one instantly (which isn’t a given even w/o bots) before they’re sold out, you could go on a waiting list for when the next stock is ready (have to wait for others first) for you specifically, or you could skip all that and pay the premium for one that’s easily accessible on eBay
Exactly. No resting in peace.
To play a bit of devil’s advocate, from what Ive seen scalpers are usually people from parts of the world with virtually no better ways to make money and/or people with very few economic opportunities.
But not always, sometimes it’s just some broski with too much time and money on their hands lol
Shut the fuck up
You’re either delusional or a scalper yourself. Either way stop defending this with “what if”. There are lots of ways to make money, even in those “parts of the world”. Scalping is scummy and trashy even if it happened on Mars.
Yes they can. But so can valve for making this
Always but is this really the smartest move by Steam?
No one asked for an oled. Not sure how the deck will work but my tv wants shutting down every 5 hours to stop screen burn. I’ve no idea how that will work with a high demand game pumping at 10x the heat of my tv
Secondly no one asked for this. Everyone I know wanted an inch bigger screen, better performance.
So now they want £550 for oled and 1-2 fos boost and a bigger battery.
I would have purchased this, but then the lenovo legion exists giving me 1.5 inches bigger screen and a 30 fps improvement, for an extra £150
I mean steam have essentially pushed me away by not listening. So scalpers will be done as I’m putting my deck for sale on cheap as a few of my friends are.
Who wanted a bigger screen? Steam Deck is already pretty big for a handheld. 90Hz OLED is the biggest game changer they could do without making Deck 2. Nintendo did the same.
I would have preferred a slightly larger one: But the OLED pushes back the bevels a bit, so it effectively has one!
What kind of drugs are you on?
No one asked for an oled.
People have been asking for an OLED since the Deck released.
Secondly no one asked for this.
Why is your first and second point the exact same.
I would have purchased this, but then the lenovo legion exists giving me 1.5 inches bigger screen and a 30 fps improvement, for an extra £150
Cool, buy the Lenovo then. Glad you solved your own problem.
I mean steam have essentially pushed me away by not listening.
F’s in the chat for the billions of dollars Valve have costed themselves by pushing you away. 😔
this post is a nonsense, there are no scalpers of steam deck when you can get any model shipped home in a week, are you drunk?
I assume you mean in the USA only? Most other countries have to import from third parties, Valve won’t sell direct.
most others except like 30 from the EU, usa, canada and 5 from asia?
like 99% of the global market sales from steam doesn’t have to import?
Literally everything has scalpers. EVERYTHING. Are YOU drunk?
No, SCALPER, no one is drunk here. I know you’re all triggered for being called out and then pretend you’re just some “moral” person suddenly denying the existence of scalpers, but you’re clearly one of them. Fuck all scalpers.
I mean for regions that aren’t currently selling it, wouldn’t it still be potentially an attractive buy for those trying to save a few bucks where they can’t buy it officially?
$999 is insane to be clear
Yeah but they’ll see that limited edition I want and get those instead…
Who the hell has been scalping widely available Steam Decks?
They aren’t wildly available. Stock in Australia is purely from grey imports because Valve refuses to sell them here.
It’s not even really grey market. I don’t think valve cares if people buy decks and ship them to Australia to sell. Just like Tim tams can be bought in a ton of countries despite only being sold in Australia (I think). As long as someone else is doing the logistics, they don’t care where it gets resold.
Same for Singapore. It’s funny how Asus and Lenovo are selling their handheld here but not Steam.
It’s like when people were buying nft’s expecting them to be like bit coins
Not widely available here in Australia. Import from third party only. Valve couldn’t give a fuck about most markets outside the US. :(
My dumbass coworker for some reason kept refusing to go through steam for it so he got a scalped copy, he fucked up the battery, didn’t go through steam to rma and so he wants to get a new one. Can’t help stupid
Literally no one. It’s the same people in the Analogue Pocket subreddit warning of the boogie man, all these scalpers buying up inventory and stealing your girlfriend. People don’t seem to under the difference between listing or asking a price versus selling it for that price.
you’d be surprised how many people were still trying to sell a deck for like 800 dollars when they had become available all the time instead of having to wait
Right? The system is great for what it is. But it’s not like it was a PS5 at release.