If you buy a piece of consumer technology, then it skyrockets in value well after it initially launched — like a portable PC that can double up as a PS5 — you should go to bed dreaming of sheep perpetually jumping over fences with massive dollar bags under their wooly bits, right? Wrong! In the case of the Steam Deck OLED, I was lucky enough to buy one during its launch week back in mid-November 2023 for its decidedly reasonable MSRP of $649 for the 1GB model. Fast-forward 2.5 years later though, and Valve’s handheld PC would now cost me in excess of $1300 on Amazon. That’s because Steam Decks have been unavailable due to stock shortages on the Steam Store for months at time of writing. And it’s all “RAMaggeddon’s” fault. On behalf of everyone who can’t currently get their hands on a Deck, it makes me angry that global memory shortages have encouraged extortionate third-party prices. Related I turned my Steam Deck into a portable PS5 with this one app Forget the PS …