Haven’t been keeping up with the Steam Deck? Wccftech’s Kai Powell found the platform promising, if still early in its evolution in some ways, in his full review… Clearly, given the actual behavior of people ordering the device, what they're saying is, "Can you put more stuff in? Can you give us more storage? Can you give us more performance?" The signal right now is "Can you give us more?" not "Can you make it cheaper?" What that tells us is that we should continue to look at higher-end offerings as well, but we wouldn't expect to be adjusting the SKU pricing. Probably the biggest thing on the pricing side is far more people are buying the most expensive SKU than we expected. Part of what you do with pricing is you're making a promise to customers. Valve was surprised to discover that the Steam Deck's top end $650 SKU was easily its most popular, indicating to them that players are looking for Decks packed with more stuff… So, we're absolutely going to ride that as hard as we can.Īs for what we can expect from future Steam Deck hardware, Gabe doesn’t expect prices for individual SKUs to go up, even if demand remains high, but new higher-end models may be made available. All the component suppliers are either going to expand supply capacity, expand performance, or reduce costs. A year from now, AMD is going to have better parts.
That's the great thing about the PC market, right? It just continues.
Valve begins shipping their new Steam Deck today, and while the portable gaming hardware may look a lot like a console (the Switch, specifically) it plays PC games, so what can we expect in terms of updates? Will its hardware be constantly updated as tech allows or will it have more long-term locked down specs ala consoles? In a new interview with IGN, Valve boss Gabe Newell was asked whether new Steam Deck models are in the works and he responded very much in the positive.Ībsolutely.
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