• DiaperFluid@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Steam decks audience isnt conducive to scalping. Little timmys mom would pay for a scalped Switch. But a handheld pc is a niche market i dont even think scalpers are in on yet. They certainly arent in VR, which is another niche market.

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    1 year ago

    Ngl, had zero interest in the OLED until I saw the see through limited edition. Kind of made me want to get it but thankfully I only saw it late today so my wallet thanks me 😅

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    1 year ago

    If only it hadn’t the etched glass.

    I bet valve underestimated people not wanting etched glass on OLED.

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    1 year ago

    I guess that would be different if it would be available outside of North America.

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    1 year ago

    Limited by the time it’s available, not number of units. There is a difference.

  • da_reddit_reader@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Well to be fair, the bots would have to have a Steam account and purchased a game before November 2023. This seems like they do their core gamers right.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah was sweating bullets there for a little bit, but glad I was able to grab one, now I just have to sell my current deck I bought only a month ago and upgraded to 1tb yeah fuck me right.

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      1 year ago

      Conversation with my buddy a few days ago

      him: I’m thinking about getting my 9 year old kid a Steam Deck

      me who is going to buy the latest one and needs to unload his 64GB version: tell me more

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    1 year ago

    Also with people yester day say the SD limited and not is sold out and then back in stock again: My wild guess is that Valve unlocked the stock in waves, expecting the scalper bots to give up after x amount of time/when the operators see the sold out label.

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      1 year ago

      They had to have had a steam account prior to November to get an LE. And they didn’t announce this until after November 1, so mass bots wouldn’t be a thing.

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    1 year ago

    Seems like you don’t understand that limited edition also means “limited timeframe too”.

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    1 year ago

    It’s still limited. They just didn’t say what the limit was could be 5k units could be 30k units.