Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that's a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold out.

Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that’s a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold out.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    People are now conditioned to need INSTANT GRATIFICATION FOR EVERYTHING ALWAYS!

    you haven’t read anything about credit cards and the 20th century, have you? how old are you? like 19?

    • RxBrad@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      I was 19 in the '90s.

      When nobody paid $20 to have GrubHub deliver their $5 McDonalds order from down the street to their house.

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        20 hours ago

        you mean when people were so impatient that they spent money to call an actual person to demand a pizza delivery in under 30 mins, then demanded it was free if it was one minute late, and if it was on time, paid for it with a credit card that charged interest?

        • RxBrad@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          We tipped the delivery driver a few bucks for deliveries.

          I’m saying that there weren’t businesses where the entire model was: “Pay 2-3x what this food’s worth in-store, and some rando will deliver it. They may even give you everything you ordered.”