"People started noticing last week that the Steam Deck was becoming impossible to buy. Valve declined to comment on the situation at the time but has now updated the PC gaming handheld's store page to note that, yes, the Steam Deck is currently out of stock and will remain that way from time to time for the foreseeable future due to the AI-fueled memory crisis currently threatening every piece of the economy that relies on computers to run."
"It's the latest victim of the AI arms race in which "hyperscale" companies are investing hundreds of billions in building out data centers in order to supply compute for running models like ChatGPT and Claude Code to churn out everything from meme slop to finished app projects. No one quite knows where it's all headed outside of promises that one lucky AI company will either create God or pop a 2008-style financial bubble in the process."
Steam Deck units are intermittently out of stock after Valve updated the store page to cite memory and storage shortages. The OLED model may be unavailable regionally; the Steam Deck LCD 256GB is discontinued and will not return once sold out. Valve has not announced restock timing or price changes for the $550 OLED. The original $400 LCD was sold on discount and then discontinued. Massive AI-driven investment in data centers is creating memory shortages that are raising costs across consumer electronics and gaming hardware, prompting reports of potential PS6 delays, possible Switch 2 price increases, and developers optimizing games for constrained PC memory.
Read at Kotaku
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