Valve doesn’t have utterly huge manufacturing (or warehousing) capabilities the way MSFT, Sony, or Nintendo do.

They very likely just retooled the spaces they were using for the Steam Decks over into making Machines, Frames, new Steam Controllers.

As in, they probably just entirely stopped mfging new Steam Decks like… I dunno, 3 to 9 months ago?

The RAMpocalypse certainly isn’t helping, but I’d say its much more significantly due to Valve running basically a pretty small manufacturing capability compared to other … game-device makers.