a few weeks ago it’s been two years since the Steam Deck was officially announced, Valve’s portable console that set the tone for this portable gaming renaissance, a market that until then was shared by the Nintendo Switch and some niche products. From high-performance devices such as the spectacular ASUS ROG Ally to others that are much lighter, such as the Logitech G Cloud or the Lenovo and Sony projects, there is no doubt that Valve’s design has led leading brands to bet on this market.

Although its arrival on the market was originally planned for the end of 2021, the complicated situation in the component market this year caused its launch to be delayed until February 2022 and during the first months it was necessary to expect a wait of several months from placing the order to receiving the console, this situation lasted until October of last year, when Valve finally began to have enough Steam Deck stock to end the reservation system.

So, Currently, the average delivery time for a Steam Deck is between one and two weeks. So keep in mind that the currently available models and prices are as follows:

• Steam Entrance Deck has 64 concerts eMMC storage and includes a carrying case. Its price is 419 euros.
• medium model will make an important leap because now it does 256 GB NVMe SSD, so it not only quadruples the capacity of the entry model, but also offers better performance in this regard. Includes a carrying case and a pack of exclusive Steam community profiles. Its price is 549 euros.
• The highest model of the Steam Deck series doubles the storage capacity of the transitional sa model 512 gig NVMe SSD and also has anti-glare screen. It also includes a carrying case, an exclusive Steam Community profile pack, and an exclusively themed virtual keyboard. Its price is 679 euros.

Refurbished Steam Decks are on Steam

64 GB https://t.co/n5qnagMqbv
256 GB https://t.co/n5qnagMqbv
512 GB https://t.co/farN6kbidP pic.twitter.com/XlTApzIqSB

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Its prices have seen some reductions in store promotions, but it seems that soon it will be possible to get Valve’s console at a cheaper price without having to wait for special promotions, because, as you can see in a tweet shown above this paragraph, Valve is preparing to sell refurbished Steam Decks. What’s more, although the option doesn’t seem to be linked, I tried the process of buying a Refurbished Steam Deck from the links in the tweet and after confirming the shipping address, I got to the checkout stage. So all indications are that the release of this feature is imminent.

The purchase process shows similar delivery times to new consoles, between one and two weeks, which also suggests that Valve has already stocked enough refurbished consoles to start offering them. And what are the prices?

• Steam Deck 64 gigabytes reconstructed: 339 euros.
• Steam Deck 256 gigabytes reconstructed: 439 euros.
• Steam Deck 512 gigabytes reconstructed: 539 euros.

Of course, if you go to any of these sites, you’ll see it their pricing information has some inconsistenciesso we’ll have to wait until we can confirm that these are final prices.