After it was leaked a bit too early, Valve have now confirmed and put up all three Steam Deck models to buy refurbished direct from the Steam store.

The confirmed pricing is:

  • Steam Deck 64 GB - Certified Refurbished: $319 / £279
  • Steam Deck 256 GB - Certified Refurbished: $419 / £369
  • Steam Deck 512 GB - Certified Refurbished: $519 / £459
    • AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      As someone who owns both and a PC as well, yes. Playing my steam library in bed is incredible. Also, if you have a larger library, it can be cheaper to just buy a Deck than re-buying everything on a different platform.

      • richard_wagner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Cool, thanks for the advice.

        So, you can basically play any PC game on the Steam Deck? And the performance depends on the game?

        • Winged_Hussar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          You’ll be able to play any game that can be run on Proton (Valve’s Linux compatibility layer). Technically, you can install windows on the deck and then run anything on that, but that’s not supported out of the box.

          You can look at a list here for what Steam labels as “Deck Verified” https://www.steamdeck.com/en/verified

          Additionally, you can look on protondb which is similar to the above, but takes input from users and may have additional notes on compatibility: https://www.protondb.com/explore?selectedFilters=whitelisted

          Performance and battery life will depend on the game, but there’s a ton of videos and benchmarks if there’s a particular game you’re curious about.

        • AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I haven’t found anything personally that I want to play that I can’t play as I play a lot of indie games and singleplayer games. Proton is pretty incredible. YMMV though. If you play games that heavily rely on mouse and keyboard and twitch reflexes, or any game that has strict anti-cheat/DRM, you might have a suboptimal experience or not be able to play it at all.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I have a PC and a Switch and despite liking it a lot when I had it from a friend, I decided against getting my own. Mostly based on the fact that I already covered all my bases:

      • I can play at the desk.
      • I can play at the TV (Moonlight in-house streaming)
      • I can play PC games.
      • I can play Switch on the go, and I got more than enough games in my backlog that I don’t need more games for that.

      But if you game a lot and are on the road a lot, I would say it’s a damn good investment.