Valve’s year-old Steam Deck is on sale for the primary time

Valve is celebrating the primary yr of official availability for the Steam Deck with the {hardware}’s first-ever official sale. These seeking to purchase Valve’s transportable {hardware} can get a unit for 10 % off till March 23 as a part of Steam’s common spring software program sale.

Within the US, that interprets to the next worth reductions for the varied Steam Deck configurations:

• 64GB eMMC: $399.00 right down to $359.10
• 256GB NVMe: $529.00 right down to $476.10
• 512GB NVMe: $649.00 right down to $584.10

Even a short lived worth drop would have been exhausting to image for the Steam Deck just some months in the past, when the {hardware} was nonetheless having fun with a months-long run atop Steam’s top-sellers listing and Valve was nonetheless struggling to meet launch-day preorders in a well timed method. However Steam Deck models have been accessible with out a preorder since October and are actually set to be delivered one to 2 weeks after an order is positioned.

Whereas this might simply be an indication of enhancements in longstanding {hardware} provide chain points, the Steam Deck {hardware} has additionally dropped a bit on Steam’s personal gross sales charts in current weeks. And you may distinction the Steam Deck’s sale worth with the Nintendo Change, which has but to see an official worth drop in its six-year historical past (although retailer-specific Black Friday-style offers have thrown in bundled video games and Change On-line subscriptions for the usual MSRP).

When you’re apprehensive about investing within the first Steam Deck proper earlier than the launch of a souped-up model 2, fret not. Valve has just lately instructed {that a} extra highly effective follow-up to the Steam Deck is “a couple of years” away (although a extra surface-level beauty refresh might conceivably come sooner).