Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Valve's Steam Deck has just absurd price increase, and it's endemic of a larger problem. Josh Brown breaks down the info and posits if gaming's "luxury hobby" problem.

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00:00 The massive Steam Deck price hike
01:13 Valve's reasoning
02:27 The "Global Chip Shortage"
03:14 Meanwhile, over at PlayStation...
04:26 Surfshark VPN
05:23 Dude, where's my value?
06:07 Is it all an excuse?
07:07 Digital vs. physical price discrepancy
08:41 PlayStation Plus price hikes
09:36 Microtransactions
11:24 The Las Vegas comparison
12:08 The gaming industry and "whales"
13:36 Modern gaming is pricing out working-class fans
15:40 Story-Time: Josh Goes To A Posh Restaurant
17:13 Outro

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