The Steam Deck stays one of many hottest items of tech this 12 months, regardless of would-be rivals just like the Asus ROG Ally showing available on the market. And because it’s extremely low cost (at the very least for the laptop-grade {hardware} inside it), it’s additionally very tough to search out on sale outdoors of Valve’s seasonal promotions. But that may change quickly. An inner itemizing on the Steam retailer confirmed listings for formally refurbished Steam Deck fashions, beginning as little as $319 for the 64GB base model.

The leak comes from pages that appeared on Steam briefly yesterday earlier than being taken down, and can still be spotted on SteamDB. The 256GB mannequin was listed at $419, whereas the top-of-the-line 512GB model was $519. Discounts stack up as you go larger: $80 for the bottom mannequin, $110 for the center mannequin, and a formidable $130 for the high-end model — although after all, nothing is ready in stone but.

The Steam Deck is surprisingly accessible by way of restore, with the principle display meeting being the one factor that’s actually tough to work on from a DIY perspective. (And even that’s not totally off-limits.) But even so, as a conveyable machine there are sure to be some that get dinged up, to say nothing of the inevitable proportion which can be broken in manufacturing or transit. With so a lot of these items within the (literal) arms of PC players, promoting formally refurbished fashions can be a straightforward means for Valve to recoup some losses.

Precisely when Valve will begin promoting the refurbished Steam Deck isn’t clear. As PCGamer notes, it’s potential that the corporate might scrap the undertaking at any time. But if pages had been already being prepped for publishing on the Steam retailer, that appears extremely unlikely. The extra possible situation is that we’ll see the pages go reside as soon as once more, with full ordering choices, someday within the subsequent few weeks.

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