Steam Deck now out of stock in the EU in addition to USA, Canada and Japan

If Valve teases new hardware, one should by stocks from manufacturers..

Sadly the producers of RAM and GPUs did not ramp up their production early enough. It should have been forsteeable for them, that the demand will rise fast.
But I guess, it is more safe to just wait and raise the prices, instead of investing in production machines in advance.

Out of stock Steam Decks is just the beginning of our problems this year. Probably a lot of companies that will go out of business. Especially smaller PC part manufacturers as fewer and fewer customers will invest in new builds with prices as they are. It's very sad.

I guess everyone knows [this tweet](https://x.com/jatinkrmalik/status/2009689523513618887) by now, but I still feel it needs to be quoted yet again:

Quoting: jatinThe reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

If you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.

Update: the article original noted both models were out out stock across all of Asia, it was amended as that's just for Japan. Also made it clearer it's the EU.

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 20 Feb 2026 at 12:05 pm UTC

Quoting: hardpenguinIf you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.

I don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses. Luckily this hard push is causing serious quality issues, which at least turns a significant portion of the public against it even beyond those wanting a new GPU or extra RAM.

I repeat a phrase of my late best friend peter: "This timeline was never intended to be used in an productive reality."

Quoting: EhvisI don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses.

Nitpicking but yes. Obviously ML can be pretty great.

Last edited by hardpenguin on 20 Feb 2026 at 1:02 pm UTC

all models out of stock in the usa still.

I'm gonna just keep saying it:

BURST BURST BURST!!! LETS HAVE A BURST PARTY!

I feel I'm one bad sector, one failed memtest away from being radicalized...

Oh look at that, it's cheaper to buy an [AR-15 than 64 GB of RAM](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1r9eykc/its_cheaper_to_buy_an_ar15_rifle_than_64gb_of/?share_id=YIrgv7yXMQ6rDYsGGj-Bw&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1), how convenient!

(Joking of course!)

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: hardpenguinIf you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.

I don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses. Luckily this hard push is causing serious quality issues, which at least turns a significant portion of the public against it even beyond those wanting a new GPU or extra RAM.

Oh, you can definitely wholesale hate "AI" as a tech, as it doesn't exist. "AI" is a buzzword that means nothing concrete. If something is selling itself on "AI", there's a good chance it's smoke and mirrors. As you touched on, the actual technologies are called Machine Learning and Large Language Models (one could argue that "GenAI" could be a term for a category, but I'd still rather call them generative models, to not confuse things with the nonsense that is "AI").

In other words:
"The program uses ML to categorize your photo gallery locally" = fine, that makes sense.
"Our advanced AI handles all your photo needs" = marketing bullshit which may or may not include sending your private data off to a hastily built data centre that's likely not following environmental safety laws or guidelines.