Steam Deck™
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Steam Deck™ is the most powerful, full-featured gaming handheld in the world.

Just noticed all models of the steam deck are marked as OOS now.

I know the LCD models were going but the other oled models were still good.

Did I miss any news about there being a freeze on the sales from Valve or any info about this?

  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    572·
    2 months ago

    Rampocalypse is to blame. They’re simply not manufacturing any more units until memory prices drop (since raising prices on the SD would be a PR nightmare and they wouldn’t be able to eat the margins without that).

    • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      2 months ago

      Since its just the US only I think Tariffs might be to blame. Valve might be just waiting for another swing in the whims of the administration then bring another batch in. Valve can do that as they don’t have to worry about stock price tanking.

      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
        18·
        2 months ago

        There are two tracks of thought here.

        1. The US Tariffs are raising the cost too high. So US inventory is not being restocked.

        2. The DRAM constraints are raising the cost to manufacture too high. That affects both the RAM and SSD in the system. This would affect all manufacturing of the Steam Deck.

        As for it only being the US, they’re not going to be shifting international inventory after already situating it in more local distribution centers and dealing with customs. So the question comes down to, are the international stores/distribution centers still being restocked, or is everything on hold and the US just happens to be the first to sell out?

        • warm@kbin.earth
          5·
          2 months ago

          It’s probably both. If they have limited manufacturing due to RAM prices, then they are not going to sell them in the US, due to tariffs increasing the cost further. Any supply they do have is probably going to Europe and others.

      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
        17·
        2 months ago

        It could also be that inventory isn’t being replenished anywhere, and US runs out first because of highest sales volume.

        • K3CAN@lemmy.radio
          9·
          2 months ago

          This seems likely.

          Considering the chip shortages, it would make a lot of sense to stop producing the old products for a while in order to build up stock for the new products.