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If You Can’t Find a Steam Deck In Stock, Get This Instead

Can’t find a Steam Deck for sale? Join the club, pal. Try this instead.

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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Valve’s Steam Deck has been rarer than hen’s teeth ever since the global RAM shortage has made shortages and price hikes of computer hardware a daily headache. I went to bat for y’all. Really, I did. I scoured the internet’s retailers, big and small, well known and borderline sketch, looking for Steam Decks somewhere that were in stock and not being unloaded for twice their price by scalpers.

I thought I’d come up with a lead somewhere and provide a heroic headline like, “Trouble Finding a Steam Deck? Here’s Where to Find It.” But nada. Zip, zilch. So I’m doing the next best thing........

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