Valve’s Steam Deck OLED will be ‘intermittently’ out of stock because of the RAM crisis

Valve has updated the Steam Deck website to opportunity that the Steam Deck OLED whitethorn beryllium retired of banal “intermittently successful immoderate regions owed to representation and retention shortages.” The PC gaming handheld has been retired of banal successful the US and different parts of the world for a fewer days, and acknowledgment to this update, we now cognize why.

The update comes soon aft Valve delayed the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller from a planned shipping model of early 2026 because of the representation and retention crunch. “We person activity to do to onshore connected actual pricing and motorboat dates that we tin confidently announce, being mindful of really quickly the circumstances astir some of those things tin change,” Valve said in a station astir that announcement from earlier this month.

Its extremity is to motorboat that caller hardware sometime successful the first half of 2026, and the institution is moving to finalize its plans “as soon arsenic possible.”

Valve’s website besides notes that the institution nary longer produces the 256GB LCD Steam Deck, a alteration that the institution announced precocious past year.