Get the steam deck starter pack. Vampire survivors, dredge and dave the diver.

You gotta sell for lower than refurb. Your storage size doesn’t really matter either considering how easy and cheap it is for someone to upgrade. You also aren’t giving a warranty with it like valve does for their refurbs. People should be selling their used steam decks for 200-250$ regardless of what model. Etched glass maybe a little more but not much.

I’m in a similar boat as you. Married, Dad of 7, barely any time to game etc.

You’re going to get the stink eye regardless lol. Probably more so sitting in the same room as your wife while you game.

The steam deck will give you slightly more opportunity to game and being able to set it down whenever you need to go into dad mode is super nice compared to having to run in from a different room or area of the house when crap hits the fan. Your wife will def notice that you aren’t slumped away at a desk and are more present, although mine doesn’t like any gaming noise while she reads so I got a cheap Bluetooth headset to remedy that (g435).

I’ve found that I use my gaming pc for my shooters that I play with buddies once a week when I have more time but everything else gets played on the deck. Currently going through all the resident evil remakes and REALLY enjoying all the indie recommendations from this sub (dredge, Dave the diver, vampire survivors).

As far as price goes I’d recommend grabbing a 64gb lcd and just swapping to a bigger storage yourself. It’s very easy.

All in all if gaming is your hobby and you want to do a little more of it I’d say go for it. Should be a little easier on the authorization portion at the price point……. Unless you are trying to go OLED LE lol.

Done

Git Gud………