You can now buy a refurbished Steam Deck for just $279
Valve says each unit has received over 100 tests and meets the same performance standards as new Steam Decks. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
The Steam Deck LCD might be inferior to the newer OLED model, but it's still a great handheld gaming PC, and you can now get a certified refurbished LCD model (with a one-year warranty) direct from Valve for a better price than ever before.
The refurbished Steam Deck now starts at $279 for the base model with 64GB of eMMC storage, $70 less than Valve currently charges for it brand-new. If you need more storage, the 256GB NVMe model and the 512GB model with antiglare screen are both on sale, too, for $319 and $359, respectively. That's an $80 savings for the 256GB model and a $90 savings for the 512GB model.
The Steam Deck OLED, meanwhile, still starts at $549 for 512GB. That's nearly twice the price of the 64GB LCD refurb.
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