We reported recently how the Steam Deck was completely out of stock in the USA, Canada and some parts of Asia and now Valve have put up a short statement on it.
Pretty sure one of the goals with this BS is digging a moat by choking off competitors access to hardware. Shame that LLMs are actually getting smaller and faster for the same (dubious) effectiveness, e.g. Qwen 3.5. It pulls extra duty as a Ponzi scheme and potentially forcing most consumer compute into their datacentres (a much better, if more evil business plan than AI) for that sweet rentseeking continuing revenue.
Pretty sure one of the goals with this BS is digging a moat by choking off competitors access to hardware. Shame that LLMs are actually getting smaller and faster for the same (dubious) effectiveness, e.g. Qwen 3.5. It pulls extra duty as a Ponzi scheme and potentially forcing most consumer compute into their datacentres (a much better, if more evil business plan than AI) for that sweet rentseeking continuing revenue.