The new Steam Deck hardware from Valve may. I would know because I was one of them, but I cancelled my initial reservation for the 64 gb one and upgraded to the 256 gb one on the day that anyone could reserve. Scalpers are targeting Valve's new Steam Deck handheld despite preventative measures, reselling queue spots on eBay for incredibly high prices. Also their system wasn't entirely effective as it was possible for some new accounts to reserve when they weren't supposed to be able to. Thats true for the GPU, but the CPU is quite powerful on the Aya neo next which can be used for a number of things as well like emulation, etc. Concerns have been expressed, however, that this price will be rendered obsolete if bots manage to buy out Valve's inventory as quickly as they did the latest. So no matter what scalpers might ask the steam deck is still the fastest handheld today. The Steam Deck has a relatively low starting price point, fairly similar to that of the Nintendo Switch at around 399. it was 48-72 hours after reservations went live that anyone could reserve a steam deck. Related: 16-Year Old PS5 & Pokmon Card Scalper Made 1.7 Million. This means scalpers couldn't rush creating a bunch of new accounts to reserve a bunch of Steam Decks to get them during the early period.

When the reservations first started for like 2 weeks I think it was, or was it 4 weeks, the only people that were allowed to even get a reservation were accounts that existed prior to the announcement of the Steam Deck. When your turns is up, you will get one if you choose to buy it. They got reservations so everyone can be put in line.

Steam already did things to help mitigate the issues: Originally posted by Spartan Sailor:We all know it's going to happen.

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