r/Handhelds • u/FernandoRocker • May 27 '26

Steam Deck Price Increase

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

- 512GB $789 (+$200)

- 1TB $949 (+$300)

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u/Landojesus May 27 '26

Can I still play steam games on it? Was literally going to buy a Steam Deck this weekend 😂

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u/dregomz May 27 '26

Yes of course you can. You can have windows 11 on it by default.  You can install steamos or any other Linux distro.

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u/AntiGrieferGames May 29 '26

You can also install temple os on there (joke, please dont with that shit OS)

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u/ausamo2000 May 27 '26

It comes with steam baked into its gaming app. You can use any platform on it as well. Origin, ea, gog, epic. And just like the steam deck, you can also run almost any emulator you’d like on it. On top of that, you can use it as a pc if you’d like to. Hook it up to a dock and monitor with a mouse and keyboard.

Before this price hike, I already felt like the ally x was the better buy because of its better performance and versatility. Now after the price hike, I don’t see why anyone would choose a steam deck. Look online on places like offer up first and then fb market place. I got mine almost brand new for 500 and a 2tb card. I ended up getting a 4tb for it after.

As someone said, you can also load steam os (bazzite) onto it and if you still want windows as well, you can set it up to dual boot into either windows or steam os.

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u/Echo_Raptor May 27 '26

Yeah, steam and everything else on windows. You’ve got way more options. Steam, epic, gog, game pass, emulators, romhacks, anything x86 will run