Steam Deck Still Out of Stock; Valve Says Expect Intermittent Shortages

Valve updated the Steam Deck store page to warn the handheld is currently out of stock in some regions and will be intermittently unavailable for the foreseeable future. “Note: Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages,” the disclaimer reads.

“Steam Deck LCD 256GB is no longer in production, and once sold out will no longer be available.” The company has not provided a clearer timeline for when the $550 Steam Deck OLED will return or whether the price will change. The original $400 Steam Deck LCD was put on sale last fall until inventory sold out and was then discontinued, leaving what many saw as the best value in PC handhelds unavailable in some areas just two years after the latest model launched.

Industry observers tie the shortages to an AI-driven push for compute capacity, with hyperscale firms investing heavily in data centers to run models like ChatGPT and Claude Code.

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