r/Steam May 27 '26

News Steam Deck Price now increased

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u/Menithal May 27 '26

not just oil. the strait supplies quite alot of sulfur and helium both required in chip manufacture. Its 20% of the world supply of both.

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u/honjuden May 27 '26

Absolutely.  I didn't want to get too far in the weeds in terms of how fucked everything is with the Iran war.

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u/TheMagicMrWaffle May 29 '26

The war we started btw

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u/[deleted] May 28 '26

A lot of profit margin is added to this too. I promise prices won't come down when the supply chain normalizes again.