ericwdhs

@ericwdhs@discuss.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller: Reservations open May 8th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve spent thousands of dollars on Steam over 13 years now, and I still think that’d be unfair. It just needs to be a hard threshold that answers this question for Valve, “Do you have genuine skin in the game or not?” I think Valve’s new rules for the reservations answers that well enough. I just wish they had done this from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50 T of "game consoles" imported by Valve in the past week⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is my main concern for the Frame release. I don’t want a “blocked for suspected fraud” credit card payment being the reason I miss the first few minutes of the reservation window, but I also don’t want hundreds of dollars just sitting in my Steam Wallet in case I miss the window anyway. First world problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I work at a plant where this is an ongoing concern. If we overstock product, we have to rent trailers to store the excess. The price works out to about $12 per pallet per month. It’s not much, but it’s also not nothing, and if we were in a more urban area, I could see that price quickly getting higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went through a ton of the reviews, and as far as I know, none of them gave a box weight or even dimensions. Still, I based my palletizing math on the original Steam Controller box, 8.5" x 6.5" x 3", and I don’t think the new one is too far off of that. We’ll know for sure in “3 to 5 business days” at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t mean a lot for your overall point, but I think you’re underestimating the weight of the packaging and USB-C cable it comes with a little. I grabbed a cable and a similar sized box and weighed them at 110g. It was a lot flimsier looking box than the controller’s too, so I could see that still being at good bit heavier. With that in mind, I think something closer to this math is more likely:

  • 463g per controller including package and all accessories
  • 28,000 controllers total or 700 per pallet for 40 pallets
  • pallet arrangement of 5 wide by 7 deep by 20 high for 700 exact to fit 40" x 48" pallet at maybe around 60" high
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlike some comments here, I don’t think this is a “test run.” Valve just doesn’t like to sit on inventory. Where most companies let some stock build up before opening the flood gates, Valve just puts a product up for sale when the first shipping container comes out of the factory. Many customers end up feeling left out if they can’t make the first wave, but technically the majority of customers get the product earlier than they otherwise would have, so I’m sure Valve sees it as a win-win.

  We’ll probably see a steady supply of similar batches for a while. The Deck preorders shipped much the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone manage to order a controller?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got mine in via Firefox on Android, but it definitely took some persistence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone manage to order a controller?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, I’ll never forget it because of how much the community was obsessed with mapping order times down to the second with each shipping wave and trying to predict ahead. I checked all those spreadsheets and things quite often in the couple months before my shipping notification. They actually got pretty close. It’s a shame I don’t actually use the Deck more than I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone manage to order a controller?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats!

  I’m wondering if the “ships in 3 to 5 business days” is valid for everyone who got an order in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone manage to order a controller?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Preordering the Deck was definitely stressful knowing every little delay could push you weeks down the shipping queue. I think I also got my Deck order in right at about 15 minutes which put my shipment in one of the April waves. Is that about where yours was too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone manage to order a controller?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep spamming Continue. It’ll eventually switch to “Working.” I must have hit it at least a hundred times from 9:59 PST to 10:10 before it worked for me. I wished they had opened purchasing right on the dot instead of a few minutes early, but oh well. I’m happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the positioning will feel too different from the Deck honestly. Your hands are going to be closer together holding the controller and thus rotated more inward. It looks like Valve rotated the grips and stick/button/trackpad triangles to match this angle, hence the lower sticks and tilted trackpads. The ergonomics on the Deck, original Steam Controller, Index controllers, and Index headset have all been great, so I trust them here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the reminder. I don’t think I encountered payment issues with the Deck (I used a credit card and was early enough to be in one of the April 2022 waves), but better safe than sorry.