Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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I'm certain it won't be a problem past a month. Primary input on PC is mouse and keyboard. The primary users for this gamepad will be steam machine owners. The controller for now requires steam. Some sunset of ~150 million people will buy this. I'd be surprised if this sold to even 10% in 5 years. It'll be competing with the likes of 8bitdo and others that while they may have less buttons, no trackpad, it's the amount of buttons devs design around. Steam controllers until they become overwhelmingly popular along with other controllers that mimic it, those rear buttons won't be essential for gamepad native games. Steam controllers have nice to haves rather than being the minimum needed. Vast majority of gamers would be served by a $30 8bitdo perfectly well for their uses
I'd expect the PlayStation and Xbox regular first party controllers and maybe even the premium first party consoles controllers to sell more than this and they don't seem to have supply problems. Those are essential to the console experience. Steam controller is not to PC gaming
15% of game sessions on steam are with a controller, that's like 10m people lmao
I don't play competitive games, and I prefer to play with a controller on my gaming computer. I'll be purchasing one on Monday! Just love the Steam Deck controllers, so why would I not purchase the controller itself?
I did not make an argument for why you would not make the purchase. I'm making the argument that it won't be scarce later in the year because gamepads for PC don't sell in the volumes like consoles. They're not used at volume as consoles. People will buy it. People that already have gamepads are less likely to buy it, but they may still buy it. I am addressing the OP who is asking opinions on likelihood of the controller being scarce later in the year
I know. I was just providing my two cents, being part of the 15%.
what percentage of the 10 million people do you expect to buy a steam controller and how much would that compare to playstation, nintendo and xbox owners? That's 10 million steam gamers that already have gamepads to play on steam and the other 85% playing with I'm assuming mouse and keyboard. PS5 has sold ~100 million where each package in a gamepad plus all the additional that you see in stores and have been purchased. Do you believe this steam controller will be hard to find and why? It seems to me that the manufacturing of gamepads is not a struggle considering how many are available and that the steam controller has a release date already rather than the machine or frame
Mostly arguing that the "primary purchasers" would only be steam machine users.
For my part, I have a deck and I'm really excited to get the steam controller as my elite 2 controller is already suffering stick drift and bumper issues.
Edit: To clarify, I'll use it on my desktop, not with the deck ha
Also I'll add the steam controller looks to be basically a premium controller for about half the price of most at that range.
And it immediately sold out, fuck me
I don't know anyone who intends to buy a steam machine but I know a lot of people who intend to buy the steam controller. Now this is just my experience in my circles, but I wouldn't think it's a rare thing.
I didn't say it would be a rare thing. The question is whether someone believes the steam controller will be hard to get later in the year as stated in the OPs post. I do not believe it will be hard to get
What I meant was that I think the initial enthusiasm towards the product will go way beyond the people considering getting a steam machine and wouldn't think it odd for there to be some "sold out, next batch arriving in x" moments