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Steam Deck's Scare Was a Redirect. Its Price Is the Real Story

The store page vanished for a day and came back. The OLED's price, up 44% since launch on memory costs, is what actually changed.

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A Steam Deck. The OLED models now cost $789 and $949 in the U.S. (Liam Dawe/GamingOnLinux, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Summary

Valve raised Steam Deck OLED prices in May to $789 and $949, up from $549 and $649 at launch, and no successor has been announced.

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The Steam Deck's store page vanished on November 3 and came back the same evening. The price on it, $789 and up, is the change that stayed. [Steam Deck in November 2026: buy the OLED or wait — GameIsWave] [Steam Deck 2: wait or buy the $789 OLED? — Tech Insider]

For several hours on November 3, the Steam Deck page redirected to Steam's homepage in the U.S., U.K. and Europe while Valve's other hardware pages stayed up, which set off discontinuation rumors. By that evening the OLED models were listed again. Notebookcheck's follow-up found no retirement, rename or successor announcement, and Valve hasn't explained the redirect. [Steam Deck in November 2026: buy the OLED or wait — GameIsWave] [Steam Deck 2: wait or buy the $789 OLED? — Tech Insider]

The prices are older news and larger: on May 27, Valve restocked the OLED at $789 for 512GB and $949 for 1TB, up from $549 and $649 at the model's November 2023 launch, an increase of about 44 to 46%. Valve blamed rising memory and storage costs and said the hardware is unchanged. The original LCD model is out of production, and PC Guide reports sales fell more than 75% after the increase, though the Deck remains on Steam's Top Sellers list. [Steam Deck in November 2026: buy the OLED or wait — GameIsWave] [Steam Deck 2: wait or buy the $789 OLED? — Tech Insider]

There is no Steam Deck 2 to wait for yet, officially: Valve has confirmed a successor is in development, and nothing else — no name, date, price or spec sheet. An AMD engineering sample codenamed Gainsborough surfaced in a benchmark database in October; neither Valve nor AMD has tied it to a Deck. [Steam Deck in November 2026: buy the OLED or wait — GameIsWave] [Steam Deck 2: wait or buy the $789 OLED? — Tech Insider]

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