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Indirectly related but it's a little surprising that we haven't heard about price adjustments from Valve for the Steam Deck yet to account for the DRAM price increases.

Higher DRAM prices are bound to also affect their unreleased devices and make them a tougher sell to buyers.

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Have they announced any price from which to adjust? If not, then it would be unnecessary for them to announce the adjustment.

The Steam Deck is an established product that was first released in February 2022. You may be thinking of the Steam Machine, which indeed does not have public pricing that I'm aware of.

I assume they're going to sell them at a bit of a loss, but I do wonder too if the RAM cost will force them out of the project for the time being.

They've already ended production for their basic 256GB LCD model; the 512GB OLED is now their new baseline.

That's the steam deck, the handheld, not the minipc like cube they announced

This discussion is about the Steam Deck.

Top level comment was about both ('also affect their unreleased devices'), this sub-thread about the latter ('going to').

I don't think they'll be able to sell at a loss, because they are effectively selling desktop computers, not dedicated game consoles. It would be easy for a company to flash Windows onto them and deploy them in an office space, for example.

Perhaps they have already secured components for the foreseeable future.

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