It looks like it may have leaked that Valve will start selling refurbished Steam Deck models for cheaper.

TL;DR: Steam briefly showed options to buy refurbished Steam Decks for the following prices:

  • 64gb - $319
  • 256gb - $419
  • 512gb - $519

The steam page has since been taken down, but will hopefully go live officially soon.

Edit: That was quick, refurbished units available now.

  • Chronic_AllTheThings@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hmm, I may actually pull the trigger on one of these, then. Is there any benefit to the higher capacity units if I can just pop in an SD card? I assume they can store games on the cards?

    • bhj 🦥@lemmy.one
      5·
      1 year ago

      I have a 64gb with a large sd card. My recommendation is to get a 256gb. You will feel space starved with installing different versions of Proton, the shader cache(?), and the emulated Window’s user folders.

      If you get the 64gb you basically have to get an sd card. If you get bigger then you might not ever have to if you play relatively small games and you don’t mind managing installed games.

      • Chronic_AllTheThings@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, that would be the plan. I did the same thing with my Switch and it just automatically uses it as additional storage without any fuss. Does the Steam Deck do the same thing?

        • Rossel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yes, but shader caches always go to the internal memory, so that will fill up even if the games themselves are installed to the SD card.

    • Rossel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I got the 64GB and swapped the SSD for a bigger one. It was painless and now I have 1TB of internal memory for less than the price of the 256GB model.