The Steam Deck Just Got An ASTRONOMICAL Price Increase #steamdeck

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Well, this sucks. I just wanted some sauce on those zingers.

[00:00:07]>> All right, everybody. Real quick, you know the drill. A couple shameless plugs. First and foremost, make sure you sub to Review TechUSA. Leave a like and a comment. It helps out in the algorithm. Also, make sure you check me out over on Twitch. I've been live streaming over there as well. This Friday at 5:00 p.m., I'm going to be having a live stream of some special DSP gaming content. And also, I'll be playing the new 007 game. The full name doesn't come to me right now. And on June 3rd at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, I'm going to be having a marathon stream right here, and it should be really interesting. 12 hours of a large man and you watching a large man because you want to. Anyway, I'll have links to everything I mentioned below in the description and top pin comments. So, hey, we're back with a uh another exciting episode of Everything is unaffordable and life sucks. And this time it's the Steam Deck OLED, but let's talk about some other recent price increases with consoles that have happened. Here is the Switch 2 uh this September. This actually happened after the PS5, but whatever. I have them out of order. This September in the US, the Switch 2 is going from €450 bucks to 500 bucks. It's getting price increases.

[00:01:20]It's going from uh €469 to $500. And in Canada, it's going from 630 bucks to €680.

[00:01:30]So, there's that. But wait, there's more. Uh we know recently that the PlayStation consoles got an insane price increase. Let's begin here. The original launch price of the digital edition PS5 was 400 bucks. It's now 600. Disc edition was 500 bucks. It's now 650 bucks. PS5 Pro is basically the price of a decent gaming PC now. Well, used to be. Uh the original price was 700 bucks and now it is $900.

[00:02:05]Now, we know that Valve is supposedly coming out with the Steam Machine soon.

[00:02:09]And there have been people that are industry insiders who are fairly on the money, like Moore's law is dead, that with the Steam Machine, they said, "Yeah, we know that prices are going up, but if you even look at like us making a bill that would be at least as good as the Steam Machine or better, even with inflated prices, it we could get it to a reasonable price point. So, there's no way that the Steam machine can be well above this price. There's no way it could be priced out of like the PS5 territory. Right.

[00:02:40]Right.

[00:02:42]Well, guess what? The Steam Deck, which released in early 2022, the same time as Elden Ring released, if you remember, they were trying to push the Steam Deck, and it worked, uh, that you could play Elden Ring on the go. That was over four years ago.

[00:02:58]Wait till you see the price increases that are coming to the Steam Deck. This comes from IGN.com.

[00:03:04]Valve has announced a substantial price increase for the Steam Deck. The company announced today that all new OLED models are officially back in stock after months of being out of stock, which is good news, right?

[00:03:18]But they will be getting a absolutely astronomical, insane, ridiculous price increase. The lowest tier model, the uh 512 GB OLED Steam Deck was previously 549 bucks and it will now cost 789.

[00:03:35]The premium 1 TBTE OLED Steam Deck was previously $6.49 is now going for more than the PS5 Pro at $949.

[00:03:47]Valve stated that these new prices reflect the current state of component costs and other global logistics challenges across the industry as a whole. And those price increases go in effect right away. I this is me on my Steam account here. And uh yeah, $789 and $949 depending on your storage configuration. And what's amazing about that is you need to keep this in mind.

[00:04:14]The Steam Deck, like I said before, is over four years old.

[00:04:19]Over four years old. It has Zen 2 CPU cores. It's a quad core multi-threaded processor and it has uh RDNA2 graphics in there. A compute units. That's ancient.

[00:04:31]And these prices have to go up to this.

[00:04:33]What do you think is going to happen to the Steam Machine? Now, one thing I want to bring up with the Steam Machine, I did hear that maybe, and this is a rumor, and I would be shocked if Valve does it, with the Steam Machine, they may eat some of the cost to not make the box insufferably expensive when they release it. But I I think that's a pipe dream. Valve is not like Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo. Uh they don't want to eat Well, Nintendo doesn't really eat anything on their consoles usually. uh they usually actually make a little but bit of money or break even.

[00:05:06]But hopefully there is some truth to that that Valve may eat some of the cost to make the box more affordable. But I doubt it. And if they have to raise the price of the Steam Deck, which is based on ancient technology at this point, especially in the tech world, man, how how things evolve.

[00:05:26]I can't picture them being able to get the Steam Machine at best, unless they're going to eat the cost, like I said, and sell it at a loss, anything less than 800. And at that point, people are like, I'm just going to buy a PS5 Pro for 100 bucks more that's way more powerful than the Steam Machine. So, unless Valve is going to eat the cost and they're going to eat the price and sell it at a loss, I don't know what else to tell them. It may not be worth it to release the box anytime soon. And by the time maybe they can release it, if component prices ever do come down, keyword ever do. It may be too late and the tech may be so outdated that they have to make another box. This stuff should put you on red alert when you have all the CEOs like Jeff Bezos and you know, Jensen Wong from Nvidia and many others saying that the future of computing is going to be in the cloud. have everyone having their own PC and their own tech in their home is going to be outdated just like electricity people used to have Jeff Bezos said this people used to have their own generators now they're on a grid but what I always say to refute that sure I get what you're saying Jeff but what happens with your electrical bill you are beholden to what the electric company wants to charge you and usually you don't have options to go over to another electric company that is exactly what these tech companies want you want to have access to your computer for productivity, video editing, Photoshop, you name it, anything like that, you're going to have to pay a subscription fee for the rest of your life. Oh, they want to double that subscription fee. Well, I guess if you have to keep using the software, you're going to have to keep paying us. Whereas, if you own a computer, even a mid-range one, before all this crazy crap, you bought it for 900 bucks, you could be video editing on that thing for half a decade. You spent 900 bucks once and you're using it for half a decade. They rather have you on a subscription and have a continual drip feed of your money, which is way more profitable to them. And that is where we're at right now. And you're seeing this with things like the Steam Deck going up to almost $1,000.

[00:07:32]And it's just going to get worse. I just saw an article saying this RAM crunch is definitely going to last and may get worse after 2026.

[00:07:42]This is our future right now. Hopefully we could fight back, but things are looking really grim. This is Richview Tech USA signing out. Have a good one.