expired Posted by Pachenko • May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025 7:08 PM
expired Posted by Pachenko • May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025 7:08 PM
Valve Certified Refurbished: Steam Deck Handheld PC: 256GB LCD $319 & 3 other variants
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I'm only seeing 512 GB left for OLED
Also, I never see anything in stock if I look on my computer browser but I do on my mobile browser. I don't really understand their inventory system.
EDIT: This deal is so great. To get that functionality for $279 is still insane. People will say OLED is better (it is), or that the Ally is faster (it is). But for $279?!?! What a steal. Upgrade the SSD easily, use a mSD card without risk of frying it,etc. Retro emulation.... PC gaming... Linux desktop if you need it. Just crazy.
It may no longer be the "best" handheld out there anymore. But it's the best value, by far.
For example for this game: https://store.steampowe
Steam Deck Compatibility: "Playable" (aka means works fine but might have caveat like small text or requires manually changing settings). For this game there are a bunch of things mentioned such as not supporting the SD's native resolution (probably has 1280x720 not 1280x800 / 16:9 vs 16:10), not showing Steam Deck buttons for in game prompts, etc. All of that being said 99.9% of the time "playable" = flawless experience.
And if a game is "unsupported" it most of the time means it has not be tested by Valve, not that it will not work. Modern games with anti-cheat are the games that normally the outlier for games for not working on the Steam Deck, or crazy high sys requirements on 2023-2025 AAA titles that make any modest gaming PC struggle.
A better resource is actually https://www.protondb.co
https://www.protondb.co
Nice thing about Valve if it doesn't work and you bought a game via Steam you can get a refund within 2 weeks if played under 2 hours....on any game for any reason.
*Also, I tend to look for controller support via Steam's rating, sometimes configuring M&K controls can be time consuming for older games to make them work for the Steam Deck's gamepad interface (but totally worth the effort IMO for playing older games…which I do a lot). Only games I find are really hard to get right for gamepad use are RTS's and RPG's that were designed around mouse use. Those can be a PITA to force to work on any controller.
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All of this happened in April 2025.
Bought a refurb 1TB oled that died 15 minutes after i started using it.
Sent in for swap
Bought a 64GB refurb and the X and A buttons would activate on their own along with the left menu button.
Sent in for refund.
The replacement 1TB came back with the right trigger spring way to tight causing alot of tension when held down. As well as a bad directional pad. Down-left diagonal could barely activate, maybe 10% of the time. Their support told me that is normal. I disagreed.
I was waiting for my original deck to come back. Mind you the repair took about 30 days(which is also another red flag from Teleplan).
Mind you, i dont have any of these problems with that unit.
Overall - if you purchase one, please test it Thorougly and dont be afraid to reach out to support. You deserve a product that works to your satisfaction.
But wish you luck in getting that Slickdeal on the refurb!!
I bought my Steam Deck a year ago, I think. I don't remember what I paid for it, but I've definitely got more than my money's worth out of it! Steam even had cloud game saves for games I haven't played in a decade, finally beat Borderlands 2 and chipping away at my backlog!
It's also an amazing Streaming handheld, great with GeForce Now and PlayStation. It's insane to me that the PlayStation Portal costs close to the Deck's price, but the deck is better in about every way (OLED option, 90 Hz refresh on OLED, video out, Bluetooth for audio and extra controllers (multiplayer), microSD storage, rear buttons, significantly longer battery life while streaming, the X86 platform has less latency than what the Portal uses, WiFi 6E, ability to play PC games offline, ability to act like a PC laptop, probably more I'm forgetting) except the Portal has a 1080P built-in display. I also use the Deck with an SD card full of my purchased music and movie library.
You can definitely play the DOS versions of Tie Fighter or X-Wing, Wing Commander series, emulate games like my copy of Starlancer for Dreamcast or Ace Combat X for PSP. I'm not sure about X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, but Linux seems to actually have better backwards compatibility with older windows games than current versions of Windows. Hope you get to enjoy some Excellent space/flight sim games, I love them too!
You can also use handbrake to rip your old music CDs and movie DVDs, dump them onto an SD card, and use the Deck as a media library you can take to any TV or take on the road. Beats those old disc binders!