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Steam Deck price raised by $240-$300
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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honestly even new stuff runs fine on older hardware. The days of games like Crysis having extremely bad optimization are behind us, pretty much everything that comes out now has pretty good compatability.
source: I still have no trouble playing new major releases on my mid range pc from 5 years ago
My computer is 7 years old and I would still call it newish lol. To build a comparable one now would cost more than it did at the time.
It's pretty hard to find second hand PCs that are in working order + not cockroach infested biohazards. There's a market for ex corporate laptops but most have awful thermal characteristics and integrated GPUs and wouldn't be suitable for much gaming beyond dwarf fortress/true roguelikes/emulation up to like the DS probably skipping some PS2 games.
Maybe in more populous places there are better used markets. People atm are trying to sell 5 year old hardware more than it was at the time.
Yeah I'm actually about to sell my desktop just because I barely use it and need the money and its probably worth more than it was when I bought it now. I have a laptop (a 2nd hand corpo fleet one i got for cheap funnily enough) and will just use that. Not a big gamer anymore. Maybe play a game once a month tops.
I don't play games released after October 7th. Don't ask why.
Edit: revising that to games after October 20th. Don't ask why.
Edit2: further revising that to games after September 26th 2024. Don't ask why.
Why?