Unpopular opinion:<br><br>If any other company were to start swapping out the internal components of their product with lower quality ones after already taking your reservation fee, most consumers would be absolutely outraged. Valve shouldn't get a free pass just cause pRaIsE gAbEn,(reply>), @Bip Bop Especially with how much the ssd costs there shouldn't be any reason why they can't source comparable ssds and not downgrade it. $130 more dollars for a measly 192 more gigaytes compared to the costs of a normal m.2 and they would have bulk discounts so it's much less than what we would pay.,(reply>), It's probably one of the reasons why they could increase production. I can imagine with the current supply chain issues the faster SSD's are hard to get, while not making a difference in real life testing.,(reply>), The fan thing is annoying, but presumably didn't save Valve $. The SSD thing I don't like at all and agree with you. You're gonna ship me a cheaper SSD, then I want to pay less money &amp; I would want the option to wait longer for the right SSD. They went all big talk about how people shouldn't upgrade their SSDs, because of various problems, but then bam swap at their convenience, which makes upgrades more appealing. I want to see multiple independent third party proof this lower bandwidth doesn't add time to loading the deck up with a big library or backing up your current games off the deck. <br><br>I know LTT has shown how hard it is for people to tell SSDs apart. Maybe some people will be happy to get their Steam Deck sooner, but personally, not me.,(reply>), "Half the bandwidth" as stated in the video doesn't translate to the real-world difference between the SKUs; the absolute peak of the existing SSDs in pure synthetic benchmarks is 2.4 GB/s, and the new limit is 2.0 GB/s. I don't think it's at all an unreasonable tradeoff.,(reply>), And what about direct storage? Right now bandwidth doesnt change anything but direct storage is coming and if it will be supporting Pcie 3.0 then this half of bandwidth will make a difference.