Valve's Steam Deck price jumps by nearly 50%, now costs $949 for a 1TB model

It is perhaps not surprising that the price of the Steam Deck has gone up, given the state of everything, but even so, just how far it's jumped is straight-up shocking. The 512GB OLED model has gone from $549 to $789, and the 1TB unit has leapt from $649 to $949, an increase of nearly 50%.

So you can enjoy the same gut-punch sticker shock I felt, this is what it looks like in my home country of Canada, where a 1TB Steam Deck now costs $1,349 plus applicable sales taxes—so, in my province, that sucker is going to ring up to well over $1,500. To which I say, what the hell?