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.

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 😅

Don’t tell me that or I’ll want one!

If only it hadn’t the etched glass.

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

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

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

You’ll still have entitled babies crying they didn’t get one in time though. “Valve wuined my day uwu”

When I hear that, it sucks even more that they don’t ship this variant outside the US and Ca.😩

I live in UK. - am just going to install a third party shell when available

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.

saw one on ebay for $2400 lmao

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.

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.

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

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