No? The website has units available here[0] in the US. I think this article is old. There must have been a very small first shipment that got sold out before the next batch came in<p>[0] <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck</a>
> Note: Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages.<p>Misleading article
No-one knows how many they had in stock. It might have been 6.
"Sold out" is mostly meaningless if we don't know the inventory they moved. Perhaps 5,000 units have rolled off the line over the last week and those all sold. Or maybe 200,000 sold out in one day. We simply don't know what it means to sell out.<p>My guess is they could sell low double digit thousands per month, in which case selling out temporarily in some regions is an entirely meaningless measure hardly worth an article or even a tweet.
TL;DR: Scalpers doing scalper things.