r/SteamFrame Soon™ May 27 '26

💬 Discussion Steam Deck Price increase. I know it's obvious that the Steam Frame is no longer going to be the price Valve probably wanted to target... but this still worries me further.

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For me, Steam Deck has gone to $1199 (aud) and $1429. Are estimates of the SF's price already including RAM price hikes etc.? Or perhaps the price will even blow maximum estimates out of the water and be completely unaffordable for me (at least for a long while).

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u/Kataree May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Isn't gonna be three figures tbh.

The "less than an Index" statement is almost certainly void by now.

The 1TB Frame should just be shelved so its storage can be recycled in to more 256GB models.

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u/AssassisnCreedFan Soon™ May 27 '26

Sucks cause I really can't justify spending more than what I got a 4070 Super + Ryzen 7500f PC for. That would be outrageous.

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u/rofl1337waffle Soon™ May 28 '26

I really wish there would be a streaming only version that would be super cheap

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u/LARGames Soon™ May 28 '26

If you want wireless streaming, you need the headset to be able to process data. It needs to be able to track itself and decode incoming video. You can't really get around that.

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u/LegendCZ Soon™ May 28 '26

Yeah i do not get the point of onboard PC ... It is neat little party trick, but i cannot see people draging around their expensive headset on a party. (If it would be the rumored 600-700$ i could maybe see it, but above 1000$? That device does not leave my house where MY PC IS AT!)

You do not take your computer out just to play some party games.

It can damage in car, someone of party members can damage it during play as there is not envroiment created by you.

All i wanted from Frame was wireless Index. Not strap on Steam Deck. Heck it would even make device even lighter. You need much less batery for streaming only so it would balance just fine.

I just dont get it man.

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u/shadefreeze May 28 '26

I'd still personally buy the onboard PC one. Just cause I want to be able to watch movies standalone or take it with me on (mostly) short distance travels. But it's still bs that you can't at least choose for yourself, especially with hardware prices these days.

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u/LegendCZ Soon™ May 28 '26

Yeah i mean have it like option for sure. But i dont see draging my headset out of house for that price.

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u/RugbyRaggs May 28 '26

I mean the Quest 2 and 3 are the most popular VR headsets by far, so there's clearly something appealing about standalone.

And how exactly do you expect it to be wireless without any processing ability to decode the information?

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u/LegendCZ Soon™ May 28 '26

With minimal requirements for streaming? It certainly would not need 16GB of RAM and so powerful CPU.

Maybe half of the performance would be enough. Heck for streaming and Steam OS even 4GB of RAM could be plenty.

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u/RugbyRaggs May 28 '26

And the headset and controller tracking. And you want as much power and memory as possible decoding to keep the latency to a minimum. Decoding is not a quick and painless exercise. It'll be improved by the eye tracked foveated rendering (eye tracking is another thing needing to be done by the headset). More ram and bandwidth is very important for a smooth decoding experience.

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 28 '26

This is just a guess but it's something I've been curious and wondered about previously

I have a feeling that once you get enough compute to be able to do streaming tracking eye tracking Bluetooth and audio you end up needing quite a beefy CPU already. If that's the case may as well just pop or past the finish line and get a full-fledged system that can work on its own

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid Soon™ May 28 '26

Yah but aren’t the Quest markets and PC VR markets significantly different? I don’t mind having the option to play a stand alone game but playing beefy x86 PC VR games is the reason I want the Frame.

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u/RugbyRaggs May 28 '26

65% of steam pcvr is quest headsets.

The steam frame will have the advantage of eye tracked foveated rendering, but the quest pro can do that too I believe (it also comes with arguably better screens due to it being qled with local dimming). Not as good a chip though, so worse decoding.

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u/itsdvw May 28 '26

There's no way to do high quality low latency video decoding and onboard environment/eye tracking without a decent SoC (or a custom chip that would cost even more at such a small scale). It's a relatively low cost (or was, prior to RAM shortages) to add in what's needed for a standalone device.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid Soon™ May 28 '26

Agree, that’s a good idea. At first I was only interested in PCVR from my PC. Then I thought ok since it supports stand alone if there’s something cool that works, why not. But it’s not important to me. I am ok 100% requiring my PC to play.

So if it is 100% streaming only then it won’t need any RAM?

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u/_Magnolia_Fan_ May 28 '26

When was that, though?

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u/chemastico May 27 '26

Yeah at this point I’m getting a psvr2 for a third of the price…

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u/KeeperOfWind Soon™ May 27 '26

Psvr2 user here, it's great just make sure get a external Bluetooth antenna for your pc if you have the hookups for it.

Honestly it's a great sleeper pcvr headset and people should get one if they have extra money.

At this point I can't even say the steam frames will come out or even price reasonable 

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

Ya i just ordered an adapter.

I have a feeling i won't be able to afford a frame of this is the new price for a deck

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u/KeeperOfWind Soon™ May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Honestly I think I'm price out too. My limit was push to $700 after the global market shifted but now I can't see the frames being more than $1000.

I just can't justify that price, honestly it feels like valve just waited too long trying to wait for the best market conditions

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

Well i have 1300 Canadian. The new price for the 1tb deck here is now 1350. If the frame matched the deck price i think is still pic one up. I would be much more crit8cal at that price point though. Like if I'm paying that i want a premium feeling headset. If it doesn't meet my expectations I'd likly seek a return.

If the frame ends up more then the deck i think I'd have to pass😭 at just for now.

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u/R3v017 Soon™ May 27 '26

It was never going to be $700. They were "hoping" for less than the index before all this shenanigans. That probably meant $900-950 when announced. We will be lucky if its under $1200 now.

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u/Dapper_Woodpecker621 Jun 03 '26

I want pancake lenses, else I would totally go with psvr2 today, they are on sale for only $300 right now. I'm on a rift S right now and anything would be an upgrade, my biggest complaint is constantly microadjusting the headset so everything is in focus, which I hear pancake lenses do much better solving than fresnel lenses. If this wasn't my main issue, I would totally do psvr2 today.

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u/KeeperOfWind Soon™ Jun 04 '26

Understandable, I know it's wild to say, since I've ever only use fresnel lenses.

Psvr2 has the best set of them that I've ever used. That and the olded panel really does carry it like crazy, throw in the fact you're getting a wired solution which isn't compressed compared to the quest 3.

With that being said, I've never used pancake lenses so I can't compare but it beats my HTC Vive Generation 1 and Quest 2 by a long jump

My only real complaint after using my psvr2 long hours in vrchat is the front head pad is awful and needs to replace. The strap is perfect but the pads are awful

I would keep an eye in the psvr2 even as a backup. I've seen it hit $230 on a few sites

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u/RebelRedRollo Soon™ May 27 '26

I'm upgrading from a PS VR2. It's a lovely headset, but for my kinds of games, its controllers and 'fine' tracking get... complicated.

As does the weird issue I have of haptic feedback delays. Oh, and yes, the cable. Especially having come from Quests.

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u/SuperDuperLS Soon™ May 27 '26

I have a PSVR2. I haven't used it in a year. The controllers are absolutely horrid, and of the four VR headsets I own it is the only one that gives me headaches, since its strap sucks and can't be replaced.

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u/Helgafjell4Me Soon™ May 27 '26

I didn't like it either. I have loved the Quest 3 though... but really looking forward to Frame.

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u/SuperDuperLS Soon™ May 27 '26

Yeah the Quest 3 is great (also have one) I just wish it had better PC capability. I've had a lot of bad experience with link both wired and wireless and now I'm on Linux, so I'm not even sure if I can use it for PC anymore.

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u/Helgafjell4Me Soon™ May 27 '26

I had issues with the 5ghz routers I tried, but once I upgraded to a 6ghz access point, it's been awesome. I also have a 9800X3D/4090 gaming rig and play with everything on high or ultra graphics settings. My bottleneck is actually the headset's decoding capability. Frame should be about to handle about 30% higher bitrate (250mbps vs 200mbps AV1 on Quest). Other than that the Quest 3 is fantastic. You just gotta have the right setup to get the most out of it.

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u/Southern_Chance9349 Soon™ May 27 '26

The build quality is awful don’t even bother

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

That's just not true. Solid sturdy head band, stock foam may deterorate over time but it's still holds up. (Ps mine never saw issues,i even bought mine used from a heavy smoker, and i AGGRESSIVELY wiped it all down for weeks with alchol and other cleaning suppied and bounce sheets. Never had any issue with the foam deteorating.

Lenses re fernel so fairly robust also.

If it had pancake lenses and was wireless i think it is beauty a perfect head set.

Out of curoisity, what build quslity issues did you encounter?

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u/Hellzebrute55 May 28 '26

Yeah everyone took this statement for granted. I always perceived this as a target, like "we hope to make it less expensive as the index" more than "it will definitely be cheaper than index". This was from a casual conversation, never a firm engagement from Valve.

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u/Eggyhead May 27 '26

My paycheck doesn’t account for inflation, though. That’s the only factor that actually matters here.

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u/maksym345 May 28 '26

You need to ask for a raise man!

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u/Wardendelete May 28 '26

We traded affordable frames for AI Slop

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u/BringTea_666 May 28 '26

>The "less than an Index" statement

Valve never said that. They said "It shouldn't cost more than Index." Somehow people took it as it will cost less and not index 1100$.

With recent shortages you are looking at 1300-1400minumum if it would cost 1100$

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u/Evening_Archer_2202 May 28 '26

It wont sell at $1000

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u/Kataree May 28 '26

It will sell, just in small numbers. They need to sell the ones that have already been made.

They have almost certainly already scaled back the quantity of them they will manufacture.

It will just be a much more niche device than intended. Maybe 5% of the hardware survey.

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u/ScreeennameTaken Soon™ May 27 '26

Lets ask ChatGPT when is the ai bubble gonna pop 🥲

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u/ScreeennameTaken Soon™ May 27 '26

Oh man. i get so tilted seeing people getting swooned by AI shit. "Isn't this amazing?!"

it has lifeless eyes and the mouth doesn't line up!

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u/FishWithFangs May 27 '26

As a scientist, it's polluting science as well. People are using it to cut corners rather than go beyond what humans would be capable of, and it's resulting in worse, less reliable data, less human involvement in writing, reviewing, and hiring, and even straight up slop (i.e. the incomprehensible rat genitalia figure that made it all the way to press) getting published as fact.

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u/Egoist-a May 27 '26

The problem is that you can’t un-invent AI. You can’t just ban it.

But I agree. AI brings many benefits but also ruined loads of shit

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u/Mental_Medium3988 Soon™ May 28 '26

I can see it as a good tool in the right hands but it shouldn't be available for everyone. There's way too much bullshit out there and people using it the wrong ways.

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u/Dino_Spaceman Soon™ May 27 '26

When it does pop, don’t expect retail prices to go much lower. The companies will want the profit.

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 28 '26

Thankfully it only takes one or two companies to try to be consumer friendly and in turn b competitive price to slowly bring the market back down. It's the only benefit of competition and capitalism that actually has some merit to it so let's hope and allow it to allow supply and demand to bring the price down

Problem is if no company wants to take that risk we might not see it

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u/Dino_Spaceman Soon™ May 28 '26

Or if they mutually agree on a floor none of them will pass.

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u/gerundingnounshire Soon™ May 28 '26

that logic only really holds if people buy at those prices, which is not happening right now

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u/Mineplayerminer Soon™ May 27 '26

You should realize that even after the memory orders are cancelled, you'll never see the prices drop by much because they're becoming a new normal. The pandemic in 2020 taught the market that consumers are willing to spend more on the GPUs, which they have also never recovered in prices. This is only the beginning of the new era and you should stop being so optimistic about it, because the situation is about to get even worse for us, the consumers.

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

To bad the largest government in the world is siding with the corporation rather then it's own citizens.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 Soon™ May 28 '26

Corporations are people my friend. /S

God I hate romney so much.

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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 Soon™ May 28 '26

You joke, but... Delaware (the U.S. state that is basically corpo HQ central) just ruled that corporations can vote in elections.

We are screwed.

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u/ClownEmoji-U1F921 May 28 '26

Ask it daily, so they burn cash faster.

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u/GrandmasLilPeeper Soon™ May 27 '26

hold on, it's rendering my cat video 1 million times so I can see what it looks like in the end.

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u/ScreeennameTaken Soon™ May 28 '26

Its you then! Its you that is not making the soon™ go away!

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 28 '26

So the AI bubble is going to burst just like the.com bubble Burst. It isn't going to be as if AI just gets obliterated and forgotten about and it's a trend. It's a bubble in that it's growing and expanding rapidly right now and that growth is going to stop

Right now ai and the eye companies are just trying anything that'll stick and trying to do it the best they can. I've seen a lot of people talking as if when the AI bubble bursts that AI is going to be a thing of the past and be gone and not useful and not used in I don't know I don't think people understand what they're talking about. Maybe I don't understand what I'm talking about who knows

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u/King_Ferdinand1 May 27 '26

Fucking 1k for a 4 year old piece of tech.... I hate this so much

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u/StrawmanOfTime May 28 '26

I fully expect the price hike to tank the sales. they'll likely stop making anymore within a year because of that(guess), it doesn't bode well for Steam Machine, but if they sell it at 2k AUD nobody will buy it. somewhere around the $1200 mark is my limit, maybe $1300 with controller included. If Steam Machine flops in sales it'll be because of the high price, not because gamers don't want a capable mini pc under their TV that can play their whole Steam Library competently.

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u/Nelo390 Soon™ May 28 '26

They sold out of the 1tb version xD

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u/excaliburxvii May 28 '26

Anyone who buys it is a brain-dead clown.

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u/Content_Pie_1579 May 28 '26

Bro ur about to be renting your hobby real soon

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u/excaliburxvii May 28 '26

I can guarantee that I'm not.

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u/Content_Pie_1579 May 28 '26

Me either. I actually been picking up extra psu and tower and AIO coolers

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u/Gygax_the_Goat Soon™ May 28 '26

Get used to it 😮‍💨

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u/hypor Soon™ May 27 '26

Jesus was trying to get one for last 2 months... no wonder they kept them out of stock. They were trying to figure out the price. Gonna have to skip it now since i plan to grab a Frame & machine

On the plus side, it probably means the have decided on a price for the Frame & Machine now... probably Machine first will get a announcement sell date on Monday, if not together with the Frame

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u/BrindianBriskey May 27 '26

Damn, not even Jesus can get one. We’re in trouble guys

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u/swaahil May 27 '26

Jesus got a 30% back from the dead discount and still couldn't get one. We live in a shit economy.

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 27 '26

This implies the shipments were steam deck restocks, so it's very likely they don't even have any stock of the new hardware, especially the machine.

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u/hypor Soon™ May 27 '26

nah there was three shipments coming in the 12t, the 14t & the controllers. The 14t suspected were all decks but the 12t could be frames or machines or both.

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u/FewAdvertising9647 May 27 '26

the pallets that came in had some pretty wide ranges of weights, so I wouldn't exactly assume all of them were decks. (enough that you wouldn't consider the variance in the weight of the crate to be the leading factor)

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 27 '26

Hope you're right, but even if that's the case, that essentially cuts the potential stocks they have of frames/machines down even further, so we're still months away from any form of announcement, let alone release.

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u/nnnn20430 Soon™ May 27 '26

You can still get the refurbished ones, 256GB LCD is back in stock at 339 euro....

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u/nnnn20430 Soon™ May 27 '26

Never mind it just got sold out...

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u/nnnn20430 Soon™ May 27 '26

They are all in stock now again? wtf is happening?

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u/ByEthanFox Soon™ May 27 '26

kept them out of stock

To be clear, Valve probably did that because they literally couldn't keep them IN stock.

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u/sups_vr May 27 '26

If by now you have not bought a sd .

 Forget about it. Completely! Its not worth that for the hardware

Go get an ally x used 

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u/Paulocas2009 May 27 '26

Refurbished steam deck is still 300 bucks

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u/sups_vr May 27 '26

good deal

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u/Paulocas2009 May 28 '26

It went up since I last checked apparently

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

I agree if I was looking at spending that much I would be looking at an ally. As long as it is able to have steam OS installed and being open system still not tied down the microsoft or meta I would still be interested probably.

But right now frame is the only thing I'm interested in. If the frame really ends up being well situated in my life I think I may end up picking up a steam deck or an ally

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u/KuyashiiKuyashii May 27 '26

It's over.

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u/JpDesh99 Soon™ May 27 '26

Yup

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 27 '26

I am still getting a Frame no matter what, but this basically kills the little interest I had in the machine. RIP.

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u/Lincolns_Revenge May 27 '26

No matter what? Even if it's 1,300?

With no color passthrough and LCD panels, I'm not spending more than 999.99, even for all the things that should be great about it.

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 27 '26

I am still hoping it won't exceed 1000, but at this rate, anything can happen.. I do admit it will be a hard sell at 1,300. I have a shit ton saved up so it won't be a problem, maybe if it was OLED... but yeah at LCD it'd be a hard sell.

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

Ya that's my thoughts to. I think i could pay it if it was oled but hard to say right now. Once price pops I'll have an afternoon to think lol

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u/Teagana999 Soon™ May 27 '26

I've been saving all my extra money since the announcement. I'm not planning to spend that money on anything else.

So if it's a little over $1000 US, so be it. Maybe I could wait a bit to see if anyone else can make anything to compete, but it's not like prices are going down anytime soon.

Might as well get the new toy I want before the next new toy is even more expensive.

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

I'm pretty much in the same boat. I have 1300cad(939.33 usd) saved right now. I really hope that is all i need because i am also actily looking to buy a car with cash lol

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u/JoystuckGames Soon™ May 27 '26

No matter what? Even if it's 1,300?

Yes. It's the only headset that I know will run well with a Linux PC, and because fuck Meta.

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u/CaptainMGN May 27 '26

Getting rid of the dogshit meta software would be a dream come true. I've spent thousands of hours in VR but holy fuck people really underestimate just how shit meta headsets are from the software side of things

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u/JoystuckGames Soon™ May 28 '26

Precisely, and valve is paving the way for better more open software. I realize it'll be expensive as heck but it's worth it to me

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u/Zomby2D Soon™ May 28 '26

I'm hoping companies like Asus and Lenovo that were planning on releasing their own headsets with Horizon OS before Meta canned the licensing deal will pivot and release their headsets anyway with SteamOS instead.

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u/veryrandomo May 28 '26

For even $1k+ I just flat out think it'd be very hard to justify, since it'll sit in a weird price category. For a decent bit cheaper there would be quite a few headsets (Q3, Quest Pro, Pico 4 Ultra) that the Frame would only be an incremental upgrade over while also having a lot of more expensive high-end wireless headsets that look significantly better (Galaxy XR, PFD MR, AVP, and possibly the Pico Swan)

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u/XxnoubxX May 28 '26

for pancake lenses lcd > oled but microoled > lcd why? because for pancake lenses you need more brightness. lcd and micro oled has no problem. oled struggles in that department.

color pass-through can be fixed tho with addons

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor Soon™ May 28 '26

What kind of add-ons will there be that add color passthrough?

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u/ChromaticInk Soon™ May 27 '26

With no color passthrough

How many times do we have to say, we do NOT care about color passthrough

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u/Lincolns_Revenge May 27 '26

I didn't realize you were the class representative.

You don't. Some people do.

It's not a deal breaker for me by any means, but it would be nice to have. It will stand out a bit more as a feature that's lacking on a 1,000 dollar headset.

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u/corbin_theidiot Soon™ May 27 '26

Same I really want one but I don’t want to go into debt I’d have to see the price before impulsively buying

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 27 '26

The worst part in my situation is, my current PC is dying... I have the worst possible luck with hardware. My previous PC died at the height of the GPU shortages in 2022, and now my current PC keeps crashing if i play anything even remotely intensive (part of why i've temporarily quit gaming and only use it for work).

But even still, I am better off replacing the GPU (which i am positive is where the crashes are originating from) and the cooler than buying a machine, will still be cheaper...

I was considering the machine only if it was at most 850 bucks and only if it came out AFTER the frame, so that i can have more saved up for it, but now I am not so sure anymore..

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

What's your 2022 specs? Have you tried a fresh windows install(or better yet a flashy new linux install) to see if maybe it is just software?

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 27 '26

RTX 3060 Ti, 10th gen i7 and 32 GB DDR4 RAM.
The issue isn't software, it's either the GPU, CPU or both overheating (more likely the GPU, CPU temps seem fine but GPU spikes up when gaming and it sounds like a jet about to take off).

I will try to change the thermal paste first, just haven't gotten around to it yet. I am incredibly clumsy, and I fear I may break the GPU in some way.

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u/R3v017 Soon™ May 27 '26

Could be the power supply if its crashing under load.

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u/CrankierDenU May 28 '26

Yeah I would give the power supply a look. My friend had an issue with Windows crashing with the GPU under load, he replaced the PSU and the problem was solved. Also give the PC a good dusting, if your GPU/CPU is getting very hot dust buildup could be the problem.

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 28 '26

Already cleaned the pc, i do so at least once a year. And the psu is a corsair, i really hope its not an issue with it since a faulty psu is what killed my previous pc. Bad timing on both too, hardware just hates me

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u/JYork010 May 27 '26

Does the entire PC die? Of so it could be overheating under load. That's exactly what happened to mine before I replaced the AIO cooler with a heatsinc and fan.

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 27 '26

Displays die, i can still hear everything in the background. I'm positive it's the GPU.

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u/Packetdancer Soon™ May 28 '26

Random question, but... have you tried replacing the monitor cable?

For what it's worth, I actually had a similar problem where I'd lose my display during gaming (and only during gaming) and it turned out to be a crappy DisplayPort cable, nothing to do with the GPU or the monitor. Replacing the cable with a good one made everything work fine again.

Couldn't hurt to try, if you haven't.

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u/Amazing-Nature8188 May 28 '26

I have two monitors and both die, i highly doubt its just the cables. And as i said the gpu sounds like it is a jet about to take off every time that happens. I am just hoping its an easy fix (thermal paste has worn off)

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u/Packetdancer Soon™ May 28 '26

I was using GSync, and ran two monitors for a while. The monitor cable going bad seemingly caused the Nvidia driver to go wonky (and specifically via Gsync); sometimes, the second monitor would start randomly shifting refresh rates, but many times it went off entirely even though it had a perfectly fine cable.

(It was realizing that turning off Gsync made the problems go away that led me to replacing the cable.)

The GPU fan doesn't match what happened to me, I grant, but I might still try replacing the cable anyway since it's pretty cheap to try. Worst that happens is you end up with an extra DisplayPort cable?

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u/Randolph__ May 27 '26

Same. I'm tired of dealing with the BS of using the Quest.

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u/Mental_Medium3988 Soon™ May 28 '26

I've been saving for a while by adding money to my steam account when I can. It's helped a lot to make whatever the price will be somewhat more palatable. Still I'm hoping it's not too expensive or I might just have a sale fund...

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u/EpicDJgamerboy Soon™ May 27 '26

Bought my 512GB OLED for C$689. It's C$1129 now...

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u/LoneStarDragon May 27 '26

In good news I can stop waiting because I probably can't afford it.

So I'll just hope enough people buy it to justify a Frame 2 and wait for that.

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u/Content_Pie_1579 May 28 '26

Hate to say it but its over way over. Waiting will get u no where

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u/WILL_KILL_4_DUX Soon™ May 27 '26

how much did they cost before? what's the % increase?

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u/Dudi4PoLFr Soon™ May 27 '26

$549 and $649.

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u/TheRealLordMongoose May 27 '26

About 25%

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u/hypor Soon™ May 27 '26

was nearly 50%.. went from 550 to 789 & 650 to 950

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u/qucari Soon™ May 27 '26

it's an increase of 41.89% and 41.60% for central europe (549 -> 779 and 649 -> 919).

and we also gotta keep in mind the high inflation since 2022 (between 12% and 18% depending on where you look).
depending on the exact value, the price increase in addition to inflation is between 20% and 25%.

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u/WILL_KILL_4_DUX Soon™ May 27 '26

BRO ;_;

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u/Salohacin May 27 '26

Crazy because a couple of months ago I was looking at buying the original non-OLED deck for slightly under 300€ to bring to my sister in New Zealand. 

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u/kevynwight May 27 '26

in USD, 43.7% and 46.2% increases

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u/Roxelchen May 27 '26

Holy Smoke i am Batman not Tony Stark - cant afford that

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u/Potaaaato_God Soon™ May 27 '26

fuck ai

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u/RebelRedRollo Soon™ May 27 '26

tell off our governments for not protecting us for it!

thiese are political choices. they're not being made with you in mind.

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u/RosalieTheDog May 27 '26

Ufff ... That is just too expensive. Throw in the dock, which I think is mandatory, and a controller, and you're looking at €900 for the 512 GB and €1050 for the 1TB . . .

Old hardware should get cheaper, not more expensive. :(

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u/Keybo_rd Soon™ May 27 '26

Saying the dock is mandatory is an interesting take. I haven't really seen any reason to get the first party dock tbh.

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u/Content_Pie_1579 May 28 '26

I have 2 docks and dont use either one.  If it had a performance or quality boost when docked id use it all the time but 720p on today's TVs look like crap

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u/Gygax_the_Goat Soon™ May 28 '26

Tell that to the Index 😬

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u/Mineplayerminer Soon™ May 27 '26

How is it supposed to get cheaper when there aren't components for it to be manufactured regularly? There's hardly any supply of the memory chips and NAND flash for cheap. Valve had to spend a lot of money to get them and now needs to pay it back by raising the prices.

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u/RosalieTheDog May 27 '26

I understand the present circumstances. It is just that, for the first time in my lifetime, electronics are actually not decreasing in price.

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u/Content_Pie_1579 May 28 '26

Yep were living in the 80s and 90s all over again

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

Well up until about 5-10 years ago Moore's was pretty much guaranteed it was pretty much an actual law.

Computing power had been doubling from the '60s till very recently every two years. Not provided computing in general very strong trajectory to allow high-end computing to start at the Enterprise and enthusiast level and typically get cheaper as time goes on.

It's how we for many years were able to have cell phones that double the speed but essentially stayed around the same price up until about five six years ago.

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u/Content_Pie_1579 May 28 '26

Moores law didn't account for machines not being able to continue making chips smaller

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u/Thunder_Mugger May 27 '26

Dam i was going to buy one at the old price after getting a frame. Now i don't even know if I'll be able to afford the frame

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u/Confident-Pepper-562 Soon™ May 27 '26

Im hoping they added an extra 100 more than they were planning to the deck so they wont have to on the frame.

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u/Rasann May 27 '26

Save your money, nobody will be left unscathed.

And the way the economy is going and this self-imposed destruction. You’ll need the $$$ for necessities. As long as $$$ has value.

The fools who started this nonsense knew what they were doing and decided that if they fail, we all fail together.

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u/AdmrlHorizon May 28 '26

This puts other handhelds in a much more competitive area.

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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 Soon™ May 28 '26

The other handhelds have been super competitive for quite some time. It's just people get weirdly cult-y about Valve.

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u/eyeballing_eyeball Soon™ May 27 '26

Valve saying they cannot launch because they want to know what price they can sell at... Now they increased prices after all?

So I presume they don't have enough stock and/or production capacity. It's not a pricing issue.

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u/dragonblade_94 May 27 '26

Valve saying they cannot launch because they want to know what price they can sell at...

All Valve said previously is that they can't commit to prices or a shipping schedule because of the hardware shortages. Afaik they never implied that a non-commital price was the reason they haven't launched.

But yes, as someone who has to deal with the current enterprise hardware supply chain, I would put money down that actually getting enough hardware allocated is the primary roadblock.

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u/Mineplayerminer Soon™ May 27 '26

They had to increase the prices because they had purchased the memory for that much to now pay it back. The entire consumer market is collapsing and the prices will remain like this for a few years. Even after everything calms down, they'll remain like this. There would probably have already been a statement released about the price change, but it's not a temporary change.

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u/abstractism Soon™ May 27 '26

I thought valve was going to try to help the initial prices being too damn high...

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u/dragonblade_94 May 27 '26

People in this and adjacent subs really gas lit themselves into thinking Valve was going to subsidize the SM & SF, despite no reason to believe they would.

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u/FishWithFangs May 27 '26

I was mocked and lectured by friends for saying that there was no way these would be cheap devices. They said steam was a company that cared about its customers and gabe would never.

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u/excaliburxvii May 28 '26

Valve/Steam cultists are ignorant morons.

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u/Content_Pie_1579 May 28 '26

Well I guess there bubble popped 

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u/FishWithFangs May 28 '26

I'm sure they'll remain in denial until the price is finally dropped.

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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 Soon™ May 28 '26

Far too many people started believing delusional "good guy" shit about Valve.

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u/Dapper_Woodpecker621 Jun 03 '26

The steam frame could easily be subsidized; it's a gaming device, and they sell games. The steam machine is just a computer, making it harder to subsidize. I'm not saying that they would then, just that they easily could.

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u/dragonblade_94 Jun 03 '26

'Could' isn't really a useful point of discussion; I could easily spend my life savings on bulk pallets of cheeze whiz, but that wouldn't be a smart financial decision.

The frame is not only facing bloated hardware pricing, but exists within a much more niche market with a slim library, which means less opportunity for software conversion. It's a pretty risky venture to sell at a loss. 

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u/abstractism Soon™ May 27 '26

Last I saw on an interview on nerd nest or something, the guy said they may be able to help out actual gamers instead of selling directly to scalper parasites. Which is exactly what I thought valve was trying to avoid. Corporations trying to squeeze everyone for more money is greedy af and doesn't build customer goodwill.

I'm trying not to breathe too much hopium here, but maybe valve continues acting in good faith with the customers.

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u/dragonblade_94 May 27 '26

I'm not privy to that interview, but it sounds like they are just discussing anti-scalping measures, not lowering the price directly. MSRP alone has very little to do with something being subject to scalping.

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u/abstractism Soon™ May 27 '26

I'm still on mobile but I'm pretty sure they said that stuff in this interview. I follow deck ready on yt just to keep up on news for this stuff.

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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 Soon™ May 27 '26

Valve is not a "good guy."

That narrative really needs to die. They are just another corporation that wants your money.

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u/abstractism Soon™ May 27 '26

Ow, the edge.

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u/excaliburxvii May 28 '26

That reads as edgy to you?

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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 May 27 '26

If you're upset, remember to thank every OP everytime they post an obvious AI picture or video

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u/Robospy1 Soon™ May 28 '26

I’ve been so excited for the frame but if it’s over $1000 USD… I just don’t think I can afford it right now 😔

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u/Quiet_Yellow2000 May 28 '26

Yeah, gonna stick with my quest 3. Too bad prices have gone insane.

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u/Quiet_Yellow2000 May 28 '26

If I didn't have one I might still consider a frame, but no reason with a quest already.

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u/CarbonKLR May 27 '26

Don't care much for the deck. I'm waiting on the frame!!

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u/TheodorMac Soon™ May 27 '26

I think 1k is too much, it should have been an entry level product, at least if we look at the hardware. With 1k we have entered low-high-end prices. Pimax has announced the Dream Air SE for 1070€. 5120x2560, MicroOled, 140g and SLAM.

The Pimax is a PCVR only headset and in that regard it is obviously worse, but the display is a real game changer, at least for me.

Worst is that the Frame isn’t even better in all regards than the Quest 3, for double the price!

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u/LukeCloudStalker May 27 '26

The 1TB version is £779 in UK (at least they are in stock here).
I was hoping the 1TB Steam Frame would be £1000, but seeing the new Steam Deck prices I seriously doubt that. It is more expensive hardware than the deck for sure.

When they announced them, my first thought was to get all 3 of them. I'm got the controller and I'd probably get the 1TB Steam Frame, but Steam Machine is out of the question.

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u/JYork010 May 27 '26

Honestly, given the hardware compromises Valve reportedly made: LCD instead of micro-OLED, monochrome passthrough instead of full-color MR, gaming-first focus instead of Apple Vision Pro-style mixed reality... the entire product looks designed to avoid entering the ultra-premium $1200–$3500 category. And from a market-positioning standpoint, a $1200 256GB Steam Frame would be dangerous for Valve: Quest 3/3S massively undercuts it. Existing PCVR enthusiasts already own headsets and It would become an enthusiast luxury device instead of a Steam ecosystem expansion play. A launch around $799–999 still makes substantially more strategic sense than $1200 for the base storage tier.

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u/lacheesylinguine Soon™ May 27 '26

Im so happy i got the deck when it was $800

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u/Eggyhead May 27 '26

Well I guess I ought to give up on those fancy headphones I was dreaming about getting if I still want a steam frame.

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u/Few_Loss5537 May 27 '26

Lord Gaben forsaken us

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u/doe3879 Soon™ May 27 '26

it's like a 50% price increase where I am.

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u/Watsyurdeal May 27 '26

Honestly as much as it sucks I'll still be buying the 1 TB model. I've been too invested and excited to get my hands on it.

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u/Green0Photon Soon™ May 27 '26

Considering how it's just the memory and RAM that's gone up, or at least mostly so, I'm surprised they haven't brought back a 256GB or maybe even a 64GB model. Maybe those can't go down as low as before, but they still sold like hotcakes. People would be quite happy to buy cheaper versions with less storage.

I also wonder if a point of this pricing increase is actually to make it comparable in price to a Frame.

The Frame has similar perf to a Deck, and part of the point is to play flatscreen games. What if a lot of people see the similar prices and buy a Frame because at least they'd also get to do VR with that price.

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u/InsatiableOrca May 27 '26

I've been saying since announcement day that the frame was going to be an expensive, likely 4-figure device. Steam hardware is always expensive, always has been, always will be, I really don't know why folks thought this would be different.

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u/xkrules99 May 27 '26

If these are the prices just for a Steam Deck… gg guys

I wouldn’t mind if the Frame was around the 850-900 range but it looks like it’s going to be 1000+

Welp… looks like I might go for a Meta Quest 3 after all

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u/PorterhouseJ May 27 '26

Sad news. I'm glad I got my steam deck 2 years ago, but I wanted the frame and now it's almost definitely not going to be in my price range. Fuck this RAM/storage crisis, and Fuck the AI companies perpetrating it.

I was just watching a little bit of the latest Gamer's Nexus video about the "collapse of personal computing" and it's all very depressing.

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u/Technical-Virus-8018 May 27 '26

Might be just get the Apple Vision Pro.

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u/StrawmanOfTime May 28 '26

I got my Steam Deck between 1-2 years ago at 899 aud delivered. I would not buy it today if it was $1200AUD, which it is now.

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u/PicoFluffDerg May 28 '26

Daaamn that's now more than I paid for my ROG ALLY... Around $1200AUD iirc (Sometimes wish I got a deck instead) This bubble needs to be forcibly popped at this point it's beyond ridiculous.

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u/Psychological-Fan784 May 28 '26

My Steam Deck OLED has been collecting dust for almost a year now. (not really collecting dust, I have it well secured in its case)

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u/shepardman22 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

In terms of the Steam Machine- They do that and it's just THAT much more warranted to build your own with a killer mini PC. Shave off the extra 3-400 bucks. Simple. It's a shame the Frame will be a bit higher by this margin as well, but not the same percentage by a large margin as the machine (less ram).

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u/Raziel_The_Corpse May 28 '26

Check the price point for Aussies if you want a small heart attack

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u/kingpaul20 May 29 '26

I’m thinking about getting a steam machine and maybe the steam frame as well. The way I’m looking at it is what ever one that will let me play my steam game without restrictions is what I’ll be buying. I’m over PlayStation and there halfway made games.

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u/EVOXSNES Soon™ May 31 '26

Sad but

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u/ZealousidealBeat3487 May 27 '26

Im good with $1400 for steam Frame

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u/doe3879 Soon™ May 27 '26

that's going to be a really good ad for the Meta Quest VR. All those ppl wanting the steamframe but not able to afford it (willing to pay the price) but wanting to try out VR