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?

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    22 hours 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
      19·
      22 hours 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
        6·
        14 hours 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.