Refurbished Steam Deck Back in Stock for Extremely Cheap - SteamDeckHQ Article

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The Refurbished Steam Deck LCD models are back in stock and extremely cheap! In case you don't want to click on our article, here are the prices:

64GB - $279

256GB - $319

512GB - $359
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I am not often satisfied with purchases but I am really glad I got a steamdeck after the first price drop.

I paid full price for my original 512gb. Best purchase I’ve ever made. I love the damn thing.

yeah I went high side to and glad I did. I basically can only have three or four high end games on it at a time. currently dd2, elden ring, and cyberpunk.

You do realize it's incredibly easy to upgrade the storage right?

Of course not because that is patently untrue. Its not hard to upgrade the storage but its not incredibly easy. Its not equivalent to chewing gum. Could I have done it. Yes. But im fine not monkeying with it and using it as sent out. I can also afford it and it helps the product do well enough to have more things like this. So don't get me wrong. Upgrading the storage is a smart move.

It's 7 screws and a flash drive. Doesn't get much easier.

for a tech project true. for life in general. false. your social circle must be extremely restricted if everyone you know can and would do that.

You putnin a 1Tb MicroSD card (<$70 on amazon thatsbfast enough to play games from). If that's too hard, maybe a SteamDeck isn't for you.

Hard disagree. Sure, I might be okay with doing that, you might be okay with that, but the success of the Steam Deck hinges on its accessibility and ease of use.

The people on a Steam Deck Lemmy community are not representative of most users, and I recommend the Steam Deck frequently to others based on its ease of use, not it's moddability.

I will concede that Steam's support of parts and upgrades also has long term positive implications, even for people that just buy it to play games. Even if the average user never cracks it open to swap out the hard drive, they probably know someone who could. A broken screen for a Steam Deck is a repair, not a replacement for example.

lol. I like it and have been using it fine. I don't see how you equate the ease of a task with how appropriate a form of entertainment or technology is. They are two completely disparate things. Believe it or not I do not use my steamdeck mostly as a platform to remove and put back in screws along with moving around electronic components.

I don't know if you replied to the right comment, the Steam Deck has a microSD card slot on the outside, no need to touch any screws.

yup. sorry. since your comment came in the midst of a discussion about changing the internal storage I assumed it was another comment along that line rather than heres another thing you can do. the original subject though is on the internal storage which a microsd card is all fine but im not going to install games to one. I actually don't see using a microsd except if using it as a linux pc. after all the steam saves are stored on my steam account.

Yes I figured, just was trying to clarify that other person's comment too. I actually now install most of my games on the microSD, there isn't any noticeable difference in speed.

If the games can load memory early enough I could see it not effecting it but im old school and want full sata bandwidth. Ill say though that I have been surprised by even modern thumbdrives on usb ports throughput wise nowadays.

I know I won't regret it later, but in a few days I'll have my first dream deck, even if it's just a refurbished one. I'm somewhat regretting the purchase now, but it's too late.

Thanks for sharing this!

I usually have sticker shock and a little buyer's remorse after making a big purchase, but I've never once felt that with my Steam Deck (except that interim time when it was processing/shipping). I hope you feel that way, too.

Why are you regretting the purchase now? If you have any questions about the Deck and what it can do, I would be happy to answer!

More of a sticker shock and buyers remorse thing more than anything. Even though I have more than enough money, I kinda felt like I was spending too much on a single purchase. Absolutely nothing wrong with the deck itself, just a me thing.

If you divide out the number of entertainment hours you get, it will be worth it over time. I have probably 2,000 hours on mine. Insanely cheap vs. other forms of entertainment especially considering I already owned many of the games.

Bought the 512 LCD on original launch and then the special edition OLED 1tb. Worth every penny.

Same here! SteamDeckHQ started with that 512GB LCD, and I still have it! 100% worth the upgrade, I love the OLED screen so much.

I've been waiting for these bad boys to be back in stock so I could get the 64gb model super cheap. I don't need a steam deck, I have a good rig, but I really wanted one for on the go. Thanks for giving the heads up.

Keep in mind the 64GB is eMMC internal storage while the others (256,512) are NVMe SSD.

eMMC is considered more of an outdated storage option. You’ll probably stick a microSD in (if you only have 64GB) so maybe it’s a moot point.

The SSD is super easy to replace if you ever feel like 64gb is too small.