{"id":301889,"date":"2026-02-17T03:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301889\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:54:07","slug":"valves-steam-deck-oled-will-be-intermittently-out-of-stock-because-of-the-ram-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301889\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve\u2019s Steam Deck OLED will be \u2018intermittently\u2019 out of stock because of the RAM crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Valve has updated the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com%2Fsteamdeck\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Deck website<\/a> to say that the Steam Deck OLED may be out of stock \u201cintermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages.\u201d The PC gaming handheld has been out of stock in the US and other parts of the world for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/877716\/where-is-the-steam-deck-oled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a few days<\/a>, and thanks to this update, we now know why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The update comes shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/874196\/valve-steam-machine-frame-controller-delay-pricing-memory-crisis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valve delayed<\/a> the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller from a planned shipping window of early 2026 because of the memory and storage crunch. \u201cWe have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of those things can change,\u201d Valve said <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com%2Fnews%2Fgroup%2F45479024%2Fview%2F625565405086220583%3Fl%3Denglish\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a post about that announcement<\/a> from earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Its goal is to launch that new hardware sometime in the first half of 2026, and the company is working to finalize its plans \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Valve\u2019s website also notes that the company no longer produces the 256GB LCD Steam Deck, a change that the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/848595\/the-lcd-steam-deck-is-done\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced late last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve has updated the Steam Deck website to say that the Steam Deck OLED may be out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,213,61,60,43,4411,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-301889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pc-gaming","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}