Valve put the price of the newly-restocked Steam Deck through the roof yesterday, jacking the cost of the 1TB model to $949, a kidney-punch increase of nearly 50%. Ain't nobody buying Steam Decks at that price, I thought to myself in the immediate aftermath of the price hike, and as with so many things, I was wrong.
Less than 24 hours after Steam Deck stock was replenished at its new price, it's sold out again in North America—or selling out, as the case might be. A note on the Steam Deck store page now states that "Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages," and I have run into that myself: When I first started writing this story, both Steam Deck models were listed as out of stock, but refreshing the page may 20 minutes later showed that the 512GB was back in stock, with an estimated shipping time of 3-5 days. But I refreshed again, and it was once again out of stock.
