Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"

We reported recently how the Steam Deck was completely out of stock in the USA, Canada and Asia and now Valve have put up a short statement on it.

It's all very much as we expected it would be. The AI boom is affecting everything, including delaying pricing and release date info for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame - and now it has clearly hit the Steam Deck too.

In addition to the existing note about the Steam Deck LCD no longer in production which we already knew, Valve added this note to the Steam Deck store pages:

Note: Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. Steam Deck LCD 256GB is no longer in production, and once sold out will no longer be available.

All three models are still in stock in the UK right now. Looks like only the 1TB OLED is left in the EU right now too. So the stock shortages will eventually fully hit all regions.

Things are about to get even more difficult in the consumer sector, with all these AI companies buying up multiple years worth of production - prepare for a lot more shortages and price rises elsewhere along with no doubt delays to other hardware launches.