Submitted 6 hours ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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100% what this actually means is valve is only making them in limited to supply to lengthening the time they take losses.
Valve ain’t making money on decks, they ain’t going to make money on the controllers, and they are going to take a bloody red bath on the machines.
Y’all need to read between the lines. It’s a controller. It ain’t hard to make.
They increased the price of the steam deck quite a bit. Doubt they’re not making momey off of it.
Well, on the one hand… having more demand than you can actually fulfill is the kind of problem most busineses would like to have…
Or they are taking a loss on every deck, controller, sold and we don’t even have a price on the desktop.
Valve is taking a red bloody bath and slowing the bleeding.
Assuming they’re actually moving a lot of units.
They are not. Sold out in 30 minutes. Lol.
Well, at least it’s an update. I was just about to post in here if anyone had received a purchase link from their reservation yet. I made mine on May 10th; maybe that means I’ll be in the “this year” batch.
Or maybe you’ll get the link tomorrow and it will ship alarmingly fast like mine! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sBp7amhXoaMip0h.jpg
Yup, I got mine on day one (spam that F5 ppl) and it was here on the second day, surprised me, they said a week.
I made my reservation in the first minutes when it was possible and clicked the buying link as soon as I got one sent. The controller was delivered 10 days ago. I am located in Germany.
You can now see the estimated delivery date on the Steam Controller page!
I made my reservation request on May 8th at 11am, and I got my purchase invitation on June 15th at 9pm. Hope that helps.
I made my reservation on May 9th and it shows December.
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I reserved on May 15th, and mine says 2027 ship date. “Some” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that title.
The longer the controller has been out, the less hyped I have become about it. At this point, I’m probably gonna end up in the future buying some other controller and calling it good.
Definitely need something better than my PowerA switch controller since I don’t like how the triggers and bumpers are all or nothing, but I’ve basically lost all hype for a Steam controller.
People that require a controller for their living room pc are the target market. Or those that want to prioritize inputs over anything else.
Otherwise, there are many cheaper alternatives. There are also many more premium controller out their.
Scarcity may have saved you from holding a awkward symmetrical sticks controller with two giant trackpads that need SteamInput to be useful.
The deck and this thing will be garbage for couch play. You ain’t wrong though.
I can wait. There’s no rush
I completely forgot about the reservation and only got it in 4 hours later. Estimated is December 2026.
Mine shows 2027 estimate :( was hoping to replace my Vader 5 Pro with its pretty abysmal software situation with the Steam Controller soon, but I guess not
Aside from the brand is it really that much better than the 8bitdo or Xbox alternatives?
I would still be using an old wired Xbox 360 controller if it didn’t give up the goat.
It’s an amazing pc controller. The motion contols, touch pads, joysticks, and haptics are all amazing.
The only downside it the steam requirement.
It does not require steam
Requirement? How so? Traditionally you can Mao any old controller for a game manually if you must. It pairs with my desktop on Bluetooth no problem.
It requires Steam only for the onscreen keyboard.
I think there was software released from one of the Valve developers a week after the controller released, that makes it possible to use the controller outside of the Steam environment.
i actually end up using it more than i thought i would. if i am just casually browsing the web, i kinda just use the steam controller instead of my mouse now.
If you’re using it like an Xbox controller, it doesn’t matter which one you buy. Steam Controller is about all the inputs that Xbox (or others) don’t have, such as trackpads, touch sensitive sticks and gyroscope.
This combination is unique on the market and I wouldn’t play most games with a controller without. Especially first person games.
Depends on what you play. IIRC like the original steam controller, it’s better at playing non controller games than any other controller is. If you are just using it for games with full controller support anyway then I doubt there is as much of a difference.
I got 2 Xbox series controllers. The joy sticks are way better on the steam controller. And there’s more buttons. I think I still prefer the Xbox controls layout but I get why valve did it the way they did because of the touch pads, and its such a minor complaint and I’d rather have the extra control options the steam controller offers.
Reygle@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
Oh they’re showing estimates now? Let’s check.
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bunnyBoy@pawb.social 32 minutes ago
I put my order in about 30 minutes after the reservation queue went live and I also show a September estimated date. I’m interested, when did you get your reservation in?
Reygle@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
I don’t remember for sure, I think it was early afternoon that day?