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?
Rampocalypse is to blame. They’re simply not manufacturing any more units until memory prices drop (since raising prices on the SD would be a PR nightmare and they wouldn’t be able to eat the margins without that).
Source?
Valve has an absurd amount of money, they could easily eat the loss if they wanted to.
There’s a reason valve has an absurd amount of money.
Valve doesn’t have utterly huge manufacturing (or warehousing) capabilities the way MSFT, Sony, or Nintendo do.
They very likely just retooled the spaces they were using for the Steam Decks over into making Machines, Frames, new Steam Controllers.
As in, they probably just entirely stopped mfging new Steam Decks like… I dunno, 3 to 9 months ago?
The RAMpocalypse certainly isn’t helping, but I’d say its much more significantly due to Valve running basically a pretty small manufacturing capability compared to other … game-device makers.
… that and ironically having to pay import tariffs to actually get things from China into the US.
