Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve

GreatAlbatross, 9 months ago

I’m hoping this settles the second hand market a little.
Far too many people expecting to get rrp (or more!) because the stock availability is finicky on the new ones. (When in reality, if you want one, you can get one, just need to follow the discord)

LexaMaridia, 9 months ago

Awesome! Great move.

ThomasTheWankEngine, 9 months ago

~350€ for the 64 Gb Version … Eurozone getting screwed a bit here …

Teritz, 9 months ago

I guess that the US Prices are without Tax therefore it looks cheaper on the first sight.

SatyrSack, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

319 + 10% = 350.90 USD = 320.45 EUR

279 GBP = 324.26 EUR

Any way you convert it, it’s more expensive in EUR

Teritz, 9 months ago

I guess that the US Prices are without Tax therefore it looks cheaper on the first sight.

nanoUFO, 9 months ago

Not too happy about the one year warranty on a refurbished product but I guess the normal steam decks also only have one year of warranty too.

Rouxibeau, 9 months ago

I pulled the trigger on this. I couldn’t add one to my cart from mobile; I had to grab my PC.

ArugulaZ, 9 months ago

Ooh, the base unit is nearly the price of a Nintendo Switch! If they can keep this going for another year and Nintendo decides not to go with backward compatibility for their next system, I might make this my Switch 2...

LegendofDragoon, 9 months ago

That pricing seems really good, you can get a refurbished 64 and a 1tb SSD for about the cost of a new 64gb. Seems almost too good to be true.

loudWaterEnjoyer, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

What are you going to do with that SSD? The 64 GB version doesn’t have a NVMe slot, it works via a eMMC flash chip soldered to the board.

Edit: apparently I was wrong

jivandabeast, 9 months ago

I’m not sure about that, it doesn’t make sense that valve would have two different board designs for the steam deck & a quick Google search shows many videos walking through the upgrade

keeb420, 9 months ago

Nope the emmc is on a card in the m.2 slot. You just remove the 64gb emmc and slot in the 1tb nvme drive. I did it to mine when I got it. I kept the 64gb drive in a portable nvme housing.

punkskunk, 9 months ago

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LegendofDragoon, 9 months ago

Glad to hear that, he scared me for a second lol!

S13Ni, 9 months ago

This is actually pretty based

RxBrad, 9 months ago

That’s good, right? 👴

LegendofDragoon, 9 months ago

Indeed, good sir. When something is based, it is generally considered to be positive.

YodaDaCoda, 9 months ago

Which is kinda the opposite of something that’s basic. Judy to be confusing.

dom, 9 months ago

My wife took a pregnancy test and it said her results were based

LegendofDragoon, 9 months ago

Well that means one of two things, it's either the result you wanted, whichever that is, or is basically saying "nice"because that means you got laid.

EarlTurlet, 9 months ago

I would have assumed acidic