He Valve’s huge success with the launch of Steam Deck, the calibration has not yet been completed. It will soon be three years since its official announcement, in July 2021, although it was still a few months before users started receiving the first units. At first, the wait for pre-orders stretched for months, but after satisfying the initial demand and improving the production processes, Valve was able to end the waiting lists and offer direct purchase.

In those months we saw how to do it The catalog of games compatible with Steam Deck has not stopped growing, something that continues today, as just three weeks ago we told you that the compatible list had already reached 15,000 titles. At this point, of course, Valve played in their favor with the fortune of owning a major digital store for PC games, but there’s no doubt that they weren’t resting on their laurels. On the contrary, they maintained a truly ambitious policy.

We also have Steam Deck to thank for resurrecting the portable console market., a market that seemed exclusive to the Nintendo Switch and specialized devices. Since the successful launch, there are quite a few manufacturers who have seen color again in the market of portable game consoles and have approached it from different approaches, so today the offer is not only wide, but also very varied and for all tastes.

However, Valve is facing increasingly difficult competition, and it was the first to respond to this situation at the end of last year, when OLED versions were launched, which have other improvements in addition to a better screen. And at that time, as we already told you, there was the first drop in price for the original models, that is, those with an LCD screen. Specifically, these were the prizes chosen at the end of last year:

• Steam Deck LCD panel 64 GB eMMC: 369 euros.
• Steam Deck LCD panel 512 GB NVMe SSD: 469 euros.

If you’ve been thinking about getting a Steam Deck and don’t mind that the screen isn’t OLED, there’s good news in that Valve again reduced its price by at least 15%. So if you enter the store now, you will find these models with the following prices:

• Steam Deck LCD panel 64 GB eMMC: 313.65 euros.
• Steam Deck LCD panel 512 GB NVMe SSD: 398.65 euros.

This new discount puts us on the path that Valve wants to end all the stocks of these models that they have, so they can focus on both the current generation and of course their plans for the next generation. the console that changed everything.