Someone Just Paid $2,000 For One Of The Rarest Steam Decks, And It Can't Play Any Games

Someone just paid $2,000 for a Steam Deck prototype. It can't play games right now, but it's a prized piece of Valve history.

April 9, 2025 · 1 min · 72 words · Thomas Leach Jr.

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An incredibly rareSteam Deckwas sold yesterday on eBay for an eye-watering $2,000.

The console itself also has more pronounced curved edges.

The console has a big stamp on the back that says “not for resale” oops.

NEWS White Steam Deck OLED over an orange background.

Ergo, they can’t play any games.

Thankfully, Valve abandoned that idea altogether.

But I wouldn’t blame them if they stuck it in a glass display cabinet.

A PS5, Xbox Series X, and Switch 2 with a blue arrow zigzagging upward in the foreground.

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Prototype Steam Deck sitting on a kitchen towel.

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