Don’t anticipate the Steam Deck to be simpler to get anytime quickly. Valve has posted a discover on the Steam Deck web page with a warning that the hand held gaming console “could also be out of inventory intermittently” in sure areas “attributable to reminiscence and storage shortages.” The corporate additionally reiterated that the extra reasonably priced Steam Deck LCD is not in manufacturing and can not be out there as soon as shares run out. Valve began phasing out the LCD console again in December, which suggests the OLED handhelds at the moment are the one selection for players who wish to get a Steam Deck. The corporate’s discover comes after it fully ran out of Steam Deck models a number of days in the past.
RAM and storage shortages are plaguing tech producers attributable to large demand for these elements from the substitute intelligence {industry}. AI firms have been snapping up out there reminiscence chips and laborious drives for his or her speedy infrastructure buildouts, leaving everybody else quick. Actually, we couldn’t discover any offers for RAM final Black Friday, and Samsung international advertising and marketing chief Wonjin Lee warned at CES 2026 that reminiscence value hikes are on the horizon.
Valve additionally needed to delay the discharge of the Steam Machine and the Steam Body VR headset attributable to industry-wide reminiscence and storage shortages. It had meant to start out delivery these units in early 2026, however it admitted in its announcement that it has to rethink their launch date and pricing, insinuating that they could possibly be priced larger than the corporate had deliberate,
