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

Valve has updated the Steam Deck website to indicate that the Steam Deck OLED may be out of stock “intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages.” The PC gaming handheld has been out of stock in the US and other parts of the world for a few days, and thanks to this update we now know why.

The update comes shortly after Valve delayed the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller from a planned shipping window in early 2026 due to lack of memory and storage. “We have work to do to arrive at concrete pricing and launch dates that we can announce with confidence, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of these things can change,” Valve said in a post about that announcement from earlier this month.

Its goal is to launch this new hardware in the first half of 2026, and the company is working to finalize its plans “as soon as possible.”

Valve’s website also states that the company is no longer producing the 256GB LCD Steam Deck, a change the company announced late last year.