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PayPalSeems like the component shortages thanks to AI may have finally hit Valve as in the US, Canada and Asia all models of Steam Deck are completely out of stock.
It's been like it for a few days now, which is the first time this has happened in quite some time since the original rush after release. Valve said previously once the 256GB LCD model went out of stock they wouldn't be making any more, so we already expected that. But with the OLED also out of stock, that's perhaps a tiny bit alarming.
Looking around — in the UK all models are still in stock. And using a VPN to quickly check a few other places only the LCD appears to be sold out in Europe. For Asian regions, Komodo are also listing all Steam Deck models as out of stock.
This won't be the end of the road for the Steam Deck, at least I doubt so because that would be incredibly abrupt for it to just be over with all the work Valve has put into it but it does bring some questions. Will Valve, like other companies, be forced to raise prices? Considering the age of the device now and how it struggles to run most new bigger games, would that even make sense?
Valve have already had to delay any pricing and release info for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, so we shouldn't really be surprised the Steam Deck is now facing issues too.
I've shot off a mail to Valve press to see if they have anything to say about it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Then issues like this will dtill be felt but not as much.
Quoting: LampHope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARMIsn't the CPU that's the bottleneck.
It's RAM, storage and GPU.
ARM processors still need good old main memory.
Quoting: foxyDRXI wouldn't be surprised that they would introduce some kind of hardware revision to justify price increase. Maybe not steam deck 2 but something like nintendo did with switch oledWell, they already did that once.
Another reason would be to fill the gap between generations, if that is starting to look wide enough, but it still all depends on what AMD is/was able to supply.
I'm still on the LCD, and it fits my purposes, but if SD2 is likely to come much later than anticipated I'd consider a revised unit. With, say, a bigger battery and some revised hardware design to carry it even further.
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