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"Hi there, welcome back to GRTV News, I'm Alex, as always, going through the afternoons, latest and greatest when it comes to gaming, technology, entertainment, whatever you like, indeed whatever you love, we always have it here for you at GRTV News and in the wider Gamereactor network as a whole. So if you like what you see and you want to see more, be sure to check out Gamereactor wherever you get it from. For more gaming reviews, gaming previews, movie reviews, series reviews, exclusives, interviews, world news, sports news and of course so much more. Without further ado though today, we're talking the Steam Deck, or should I say the lack of it, as the Steam Deck is currently out of stock in the US, that's for all models, the OLED and the LCD, and Valve is expecting shortages of the OLED model in other regions as well. You might be aware as well that in December 2025, Valve effectively ended the life cycle of the Steam Deck LCD, that's the cheapest version that you can get right now, I believe it's about £349 with 256GB of memory, but once stock of that is completely out it's gone forever, but then again I guess the OLED is an upgrade model so you really, I guess unless you're just looking for the cheapest option possible for your Steam Deck, you probably don't really, you probably won't really mourn it. In any case, as I say though, this morning there's been a bit of a hullabaloo in the US market because as Geoff Keighley posted on Twitter, and there's a lot of adverts I've been picking up, in the US the Steam Deck is out of stock entirely. Now stock will be coming back in according to Valve, but Valve expects this to be a more common issue around wider territories because of the memory and storage shortages currently hitting the PC market. Now we've already seen the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame delayed out of their Q1 2026 launch to a first half of 2026 launch because of the ongoing shortages in the PC industry, but now we're seeing other devices, as I say, get delays and shortages and things like that and this is expected to continue up until perhaps even the end of the decade, which is not fun for anyone hoping to get a Steam Deck. As I wrote in this news piece, as we checked on the UK version of Steam, the one we had available to us, you can still buy all of the versions of Steam Decks, so if you want to get one and you're worried about shortages and you have the money to get one, probably not good to wait around for that if you're going to do it. However, as I say, in the US, currently completely out of stock, so you'll have to wait until that comes back in and it could make these devices a lot more of a hot commodity really."
"As we also reported yesterday, it's expected that the PS6 could be delayed until 2028 or 2029 due to these shortages, meaning that if you've got a console, if you've got a PC, if you've got a gaming handheld like the Steam Deck, you're kind of lucky to hold onto it because there's expected things like a Switch 2 price increase, it's possible that things like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X could rise even further, we've seen those consoles already have price increases and in fairness price drops at things like Black Friday and other things like that. But as the shortages continue and they affect pretty much every gaming device under the sun, whether you're building your own PC or just want a ready to plug in and play console, we're likely to see gaming become an even more expensive hobby down the line, I don't know, we'll have to wait and see. But at the very least, right now, sorry to say, if you're in the US hoping to get a Steam Deck today because they are currently out of stock and we'll have to see how this affects other regions."
"And I'll see you tomorrow for some more GR2 news, goodbye."
