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Valve has just dropped the Steam Deck LCD to $319 / £279 making it a stellar deal for entry-level portable PC gaming

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Over three years old, but still going strong.

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Steam Deck on a purple background with Cyberpunk 2077 on the screen
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But it's now a big old price jump from the basic LCD model to the $549 / £479 512 GB OLED Steam Deck. Moreover, what's made Valve's handheld appealing has never been things like performance and features.

Instead, it's the overall experience, the operating system and indeed the broader ecosystem; the fact that game devs target the Steam Deck specifically and latterly the stability of the platform in hardware terms—all of this is what makes it such a great little device. And all of this is just as present in the entry-level Deck.

In other words, the Steam Deck has never been about performance flexing and Triple-A titles. It's been about purer, simpler gaming pleasures. And now access to that is cheaper than ever. Nice.

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