When Valve announced the Steam Deck back in 2021, it attached an attractive $399 price tag to the handheld gaming device’s starting configuration. While this edition has gone through some changes since then, like upgrading the 64GB storage from eMMC to 256GB of NVMe, the price has remained the same. However, Valve is finally letting go of this cheapest model.


Who said anything about raising prices? How do you know they won’t just drop the price on OLED to simplify manufacturing and distribution?
It isn’t. You can still buy the LCD, last I checked.
I checked in multiple regions and you seem to be simply wrong.
https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
Damn, they sold out fast, I guess.
Just checked, in Canada at least LCD is out of stock.