Time to sell mine! Where can I do that? And if you say Facebook marketplace, that is absolutely a no go.
This is a weird generation of consoles. If you’re an early adopter, you probably saved money. That sorta thing never happens.
The old ways are gone, possibly never to return in our lifetime. My PS5, Steam Deck, and mid-range 2021 PC will have to do for the foreseeable future.
All so Sam fucking Altman can cut off supply to his competition, just trying to get even more wealthy… Scumbag…
This kind of shit used to be illegal, you know, back when America was “great.” Are we great again President Krasnov?
Oof.
Me with the OLED and the original:
This is my situation too! I bought the original LCD one when they were on pre-order, then my right bumper button broke (a common issue with the first models) and I took too long to request the free fix/replacement from Valve.
So my wife encouraged me to just buy one of the new OLED ones that had just released and she’d take my old one.
She hardly games on it anyway, and when she does, I showed her how to remap that bumper button to a different button. Almost no games use the trigger buttons on the underside of the Steam Deck, so those are always available.
I have an original model with a bad right bumper as well. I’m too cheap to buy a new one (or fix it) so I just remap that button. Honestly it’s more comfortable to play using the back buttons.
Right? The way I hold controllers, I can barely reach the bumper buttons without shifting my whole hand, so it’s much easier to just use those underside buttons.
Dystopian fucking timeline to be alive, gamer or not
The RAM shortage is only temporary, it will pass. But the popularity of the Steam Deck is opening the floodgates for more mainstream Linux devices.
I’ve never seen a shortage not followed by a glut.
I have 128GB of DDR4 RAM that I’ll sell for $20k
I mean, true, but I don’t think the Machine and VR headset are competing with the Deck.
New hardware is coming out soon. This is not unusual before a big product launch.
The GabeCube/Frame/Controller 2 shouldn’t have anything to do with the Deck, though. They’re entirely different products, so they shouldn’t impact availability of the Deck.
And that wasn’t true with the past update to the Deck, either; the 64GB and 512GB LCD models were available for so long that they went on clearance pricing multiple times before they sold out.
Scalpers gonna scalp.
Hopefully they only increase prices in the US. I don’t want customers from other countries like in the EU make up for Trumps stupid tariffs.
The AI-over-investment-sparked memory shortage is what’s causing the problem, not Republican tariffs.
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I went over to the Steam Deck website and all models are sold out.
Yup, the article focuses only on OLED, but only because that’s the “news”. They had previously reported the LCD model being out, which I hadn’t heard about yet.
They announced LCD going out of production and once run out, it would not be restocked. This was a few months back I think.
