{"id":360930,"date":"2026-02-18T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=410772"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:30:49","slug":"the-ram-crisis-also-affects-valve-and-puts-its-steam-deck-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-ram-crisis-also-affects-valve-and-puts-its-steam-deck-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"The RAM crisis also affects Valve and puts its Steam Deck at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RAM shortage, known in the industry as RAMmageddon, is raising growing concerns among major tech companies like Sony, Nintendo, and Valve<strong>. This phenomenon is affecting these companies&#8217; ability to meet their future plans<\/strong> and has led to significant adjustments in their product availability strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RAMmageddon altering the plans<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valve has been one of the companies most affected, reviewing its shipping schedules and prices due to the lack of critical components. <strong>The company has informed its customers that current restrictions have caused the 512 GB OLED model of the Steam Deck console<\/strong> to be unavailable in Spain, forcing consumers to opt for the 1 TB model. This change arises in a context where prices and availability of RAM and storage are in constant fluctuation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the acute memory shortage in the United States,<strong> in other regions like the United Kingdom and Australia, the OLED models of the Steam Deck are still available for sale.<\/strong> This highlights the disparities in supply that the industry is facing, causing uncertainty among consumers and manufacturers. Valve has not specified when this situation will normalize, adding an additional layer of instability to the market landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing Steam Deck\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AlWgZhMtlWo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valve&#8217;s recent statements highlight the critical situation at hand: <em>The limited availability and rising prices of these critical components mean we need to review our exact shipping and pricing schedule, especially regarding the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame<\/em>. With this evolving situation<strong>, the tech sector will need to adapt to an uncertain future marked by a shortage of RAM and other essential components.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RAM shortage, known in the industry as RAMmageddon, is generating growing concerns in large tech companies like Sony, Nintendo, and Valve. This phenomenon is affecting these companies&#8217; ability to meet their future plans and has led to significant adjustments in their product availability strategies. RAMmageddon altering plans Valve has been one of the most impacted companies, revising its shipping schedules and prices due to the lack of critical components. The company has informed its customers that the current restrictions have caused the 512 GB OLED model of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":360939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[22240,9981,1056,4631,1944],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6989],"class_list":["post-360930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crisis-ram","tag-ram","tag-steam","tag-steam-deck","tag-valve","content-category-juegos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360941,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360930\/revisions\/360941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360930"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=360930"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=360930"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=360930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}