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News 1: Valve raised Steam Deck OLD pricing by over 40 per cent

A number of players, PCs and smart phone manufacturers have increased the pricing of their products over the past few months, owing to the impact of the ongoing flash shortage of DRAM and NANDs on global supply chains. For the same reason, Valve has not determined specific pricing and listing dates since the publication of Steam Machine late last year. The distribution of Steam Machine is not yet known, but Valve has chosen to raise the price of Steam Deck first.

Valve has now increased the United States sales price of Steam Deck OLED, from $549 to $789 for the 512-GB version and from $649 to $949 for the 1TB version, by $240 and $300, respectively, corresponding to an increase of 43.7 per cent and 46.2 per cent. Valve has not issued a notice on the price adjustment of Steam Deck OLED, although in February this year it was stated that due to the DRAM and NAND flash supply problems, there may be shortages in some areas, which also affect the plans of Steam Machine and Steam Frame.

At the end of last year, Valve also indicated that the production of the Steam Deck CCD 256GB model had been discontinued and that it would no longer be replenished after it had been sold, leaving only the more expensive OLED version to continue. It is generally believed that Valve's approach was linked to the then-dram and NAND flash supply shortages and price hikes.

Valve was released as Steam Deck in July 2021, using AMD code name Van. Go.gh APU, equipped with 7 ' 1280 x 800 IPS screens, 16 GB LPDDR5 memory, 64 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB version, running SteamOS, etc. Custom APU is made using a 7nm process based on Zen 2 architectureCPUAn integrated RD2 structure with a 4-nucleo-8 radial frequency between 2.4 and 3.5 GHz.GPUIt has eight units with frequencies between 1.0 GHz and 1.6 GHz.

By November 2023, Valve had launched Steam Deck OLD, upgraded from the original LCD screen to OLD, from 7 to 7.4 inches in size, with a consistent resolution, and increased to 90Hz with a contrast greater than 1 million:1 and a colour field coverage of 110% DCI-P3, and a SDR/HDR peak brightness of 600/1000 Nit, respectively. The custom APU was also upgraded to the 6nm process, the LPDDR5 memory rate was raised to 6400MT/s, and Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 were supported, with battery capacity increasing from 40 Whr to 50 Whr.

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You don't get away with it? Before that, PS5 and Switch had already announced an increase in prices, and now Steam Deck of V was not spared... The price increase was only for Steam Deck OLD, but the first version of Steam Deck was not up, but was no longer produced and would not be replenished once existing stocks had been sold.

This is a very large increase ... The increase of over 40 per cent in both versions, according to V, is due to an increase in costs, probably storage costs, which seems to have had a real impact.

News 2: After the price rise, Steam Deck OLD was quickly sold out in the United States.

On May 29th, according to the tech media Ars Technica, V announced yesterday that Steam Deck OLED would increase prices and make a new round of replenishments, and that less than 24 hours later, it was quickly sold out again on the US and Canadian markets.

But it's hard to see how much Steam Deck OLD sold after the price hike. But it is certain that the machine still sells enough to get it back on the Steam bestseller list number one.

IT House noted that Steam Deck OLED in Australia and the European market still shows that goods are available, while consumers in the Asian region can purchase them through Komodo, an authorized dealer in V.

In February of this year, V Society warned that Steam Deck might have intermittent shortages in some areas due to a shortage of memory and memory. Since then, the refilling window for the handheld has been extremely short, often being sold out at once. As things stand, this supply may last for a long time.

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After the price hike, the sales went up, and they went back to Steam's bestseller, and they went straight to the bottom. However, there should be a multiplicity of influences, and after all, there was a very short supply of storage, and it was not clear whether it would be timely to replace it.

News #3: Epic Games CEO attacked Steam Deck's price hikes, undermining Valve's founder's preference for yachts.

In recent days, Valve has increased the price of Steam Deck OLD for sale in the United States, from $549 to $789 for the 512-GB version, and from $649 to $949 for the 1TB version, by $240 and $300, respectively, with a corresponding increase of 43.7 per cent and 46.2 per cent. Valve is also surprised to do so, given that the global supply chain has been affected by the ongoing flash of DRAM and NAND, and that over the past few months, many players, PCs and smartphone manufacturers have increased the price of their products.

According to Notebookcheck, Epic Gomes and Valve, as competitors, have a strong history of confrontation. The recent increase in the price of Steam Deck OLED has also given the CEO of Epic Gomes, Tim Sweeney, an opportunity to sarcastic each other.

In social media, Tim Sweeney stated that the matter had been too harsh, that the cost of spare parts, which had eventually been paid for by Steam players, had risen dramatically and that the current economic situation had also had a serious impact on the spare parts supply chain of super-boats. Although Tim Sweeney did not name him, the player who knew the founder of Valve, Gabe Newell, understood that it was Tim Sweeney who was mocking each other.

Despite the fact that the increase in the price of Steam Deck OLED caused a number of players to complain, Tim Sweeney’s statement did not receive much support. In addition to being aware of the supply of current stored products, Tim Sweeney has been criticized by players for a series of past mishandling business practices, which he considers to be simply jealous of Steam’s successful ecological system.

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Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, EPIC's a little bit of a North American. But, to be honest, this price increase must still be the largest, and while it would be unsatisfactory to say that, on the one hand, the price rises and, on the other hand, that the founders maintain high consumption, G is also getting what is due, and should not be blamed, at least I think so.

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