Despite the efforts made by Valve in overcoming the problems dictated by the semiconductor crisis, the Steam Deck consoles distributed to date by the American company are not sufficient to meet the demand, as evidenced by the exorbitant prices at which the Decks offered are sold. ‘by scalpers.
The enthusiastic reviews of Valve’s new technological jewel are in fact pushing more and more users to look at digital markets and submit to the requests of touts in order to equip themselves with one of the very first Steam Deck models currently on the market.
To get an idea of the situation, just visit the notice boards of the sector markets and the most popular auction portals to come across the ‘promotions’ launched by those who, profiting madly on the passion of the fans, are trying to resell their Steam Deck console to who is willing to spend three-zero figures.
On eCommerce sites specializing in private resale, there is a veritable jungle of touts ads that urge all interested to participate in auctions to secure the few Steam Decks distributed to those who have returned to Group 1 of pre-orders. Some go so far as to set ‘symbolic’ reserve prices of € 1,999, while other scalpers avoid the auction waltz to launch ‘Buy It Now’ offers of € 3,000!
To most, requests may seem unreasonable and decidedly out of business, but the continuous bids of those who participate in the auctions indicate that, at present, Steam Deck really has a ‘street price’ of over 2,000 euros. In the hope that the situation will soon return to normal and that the ‘street price’ of the Deck will align itself as soon as possible with that of the list, we leave you to our specialists to discover Steam Deck, the PC that plays the console.