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Valve May Start Selling Refurbished Steam Decks Soon - Steam Deck HQ (steamdeckhq.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz [M] to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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TL;DR: Steam briefly showed options to buy refurbished Steam Decks for the following prices:

64gb - $319
256gb - $419
512gb - $519

The steam page has since been taken down, but will hopefully go live officially soon.

Edit: That was quick, refurbished units available now.

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[–] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Those are some very reasonable prices

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[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Especially if it comes with the same warranty as a new one.

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[+] nutlink@beehaw.org 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

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[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 2 points 3 years ago

As someone that needed their first deck RMA'd that fuckin rules. I was PISSED mine died, still have no clue what happened never had a device catastrophically fail like that, but they were awesome about it. Tech support tried to diagnose and fix and when it was obvious it was toast they just took it back and sent me a new one.

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[+] Psythik@lemm.ee -14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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[–] Rossel@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 years ago*

Can you point me to a $350 laptop with similar specs? And the form factor is the whole selling point, duh.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 7 points 3 years ago*

I, for one, would actually be fine with buying a Steam Deck at that price just so that way Steam/Valve have incentive to continue their work on Proton (their answer to try and get unsupported games working on Linux and their own official SteamOS).

The trade-off of giving them incentive to work on Proton, which would help an estimated roughly 2.5 million "monthly active users" using Steam on Linux definitely seems reasonable to me at least.

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[–] lukini@beehaw.org 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah but I don't want a laptop. Until people start making handhelds this good at that price (and there are competitors getting close) then the price seems fine.

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