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Steam Deck price jumps by three hundred dollars

Grant St. Clair
May 29, 2026
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At this point, “big games company makes its hardware more expensive out of nowhere and for no reason” feels like as much of a certainty as the sun rising in the east. For some unquantifiable reason, though, it just feels different when Valve does it.

Valve has long had a reputation as the most pro-consumer games company out there,…

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