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The $399 base model only exists to make the $549 model look so much better now. But I guess some people simply can't squeeze that extra $150 in.
It wouldn't be surprising if the OLED makes it to the entry-level price point in a year or two. It's impressive that Valve is sticking with the $399 price point, despite inflation since July 2021 making that the equivalent of $450 today.
A possible theory is that they already have a bunch of stocks still in the warehouse, so sticking to that price point for now make sense because there is no way that its gonna move those units quickly out of the warehouse if its not.
Dropping the shitty 64GB of eMMC makes it a lot more appealing than the old lineup, imo. I think $150 is reasonable for the incremental improvements.
It also exists to clear out any more stock of the OG parts. While the Deck OLED looks mostly the same, most of the internals were reworked/refined. Even down to the joystick PCBs.