Valve raises price of Steam Deck to $789/$949 for 512gb/1tb models

[Norion]

The Steam Deck is now horrendous value unless you buy a used/refurbished LCD model which is quite the change compared to just how good value it was back when it came out. Sales of it are gonna completely collapse but hopefully by the time they launch the Steam Deck 2 market conditions have gotten back to an ok place. This will unfortunately cripple growth of the PC handheld market for a while and this is a strong sign that the Steam Machine is gonna have far too high of a price to be even remotely successful. If I was part of the Valve hardware team I'd be so mad that the launch timing was this abysmal.