{"id":214431,"date":"2026-02-17T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/valve-admits-steam-deck-availability-is-affected-by-memory-and-storage-shortages\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:55:09","slug":"valve-admits-steam-deck-availability-is-affected-by-memory-and-storage-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/valve-admits-steam-deck-availability-is-affected-by-memory-and-storage-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve admits Steam Deck availability is affected by memory and storage shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/valve-admits-steam-deck-availability-is-affected-by-memory-and-storage-shortages-102913993.html\">Valve admits Steam Deck availability is affected by memory and storage shortages<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/valve-admits-steam-deck-availability-is-affected-by-memory-and-storage-shortages-102913993.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/valve-admits-steam-deck-availability-is-affected-by-memory-and-storage-shortages-102913993.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-17 05:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Don\u2019t expect the Steam Deck to be easier to get anytime soon. Valve has posted a notice on the Steam Deck page with a warning that the handheld gaming console \u201cmay be out of stock intermittently\u201d in certain regions \u201cdue to memory and storage shortages.\u201d The company also reiterated that the more affordable Steam Deck LCD is no longer in production and will no longer be available once stocks run out. Valve started phasing out the LCD console back in December, which means the OLED handhelds are now the only choice for gamers who want to get a Steam Deck. The company\u2019s notice comes after it completely ran out of Steam Deck units a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">RAM and storage shortages are plaguing tech manufacturers due to massive demand for those components from the artificial intelligence industry. AI companies have been snapping up available memory chips and hard drives for their rapid infrastructure buildouts, leaving everyone else short. In fact, we couldn\u2019t find any deals for RAM last Black Friday, and Samsung global marketing leader Wonjin Lee warned at CES 2026 that memory price hikes are on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Valve also had to delay the release of the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame VR headset due to industry-wide memory and storage shortages. It had intended to start shipping those devices in early 2026, but it admitted in its announcement that it has to rethink their launch date and pricing, insinuating that they could be priced higher than the company had planned,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/valve-admits-steam-deck-availability-is-affected-by-memory-and-storage-shortages-102913993.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve admits Steam Deck availability is affected by memory and storage shortages https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/valve-admits-steam-deck-availability-is-affected-by-memory-and-storage-shortages-102913993.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/D6j7B_F6yGMkagi3ukYegA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/steam-deck-oled.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214433,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214431\/revisions\/214433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}