Unbeatable in value… Ehh, really depends what you want to do with it. I don’t care about consoles so I will just disregard them entirely, they don’t run a normal Linux distro.

Steamdeck is great, sure. But if you were looking for low spec desktop gaming you could look at some low spec mini PCs for about half the cost of the steamdeck. You would be able to run a vast amount of games on it just fine. Old hardware might cost less used but will most likely end up costing more in power consumption.