RAMnarök claims a handheld all-timer with prices hitting £779 / $949 Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun Ongoing memory chip shortages , caused by a proliferation of AI-huffing data centres, continue to make PC games hardware scarcer , less affordable , and generally miserable . The latest victim is the Steam Deck OLED , which returned to stock yesterday – and it’d be very nice to end the sentence there, but alas – with some barely believable price hikes. The base 512GB model, previously on sale at £479 / $549, is now £649 / $789 , making jumps of 35% and 44% respectively. The 1TB version manages to fare even worse, rising from £569 / $649 to £779 / $949. That’s an inflation rate of 36% in the UK, and 46% in the US. Valve, who’ve already delayed the new Steam Machine and Steam Frame VR kit over component concerns, say that "these new prices reflect the current state of component costs and other global logistical challenges across the industry as a whole." There is, inarguably, some truth to this .…