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This guy will have to wait for his younger brother.
It was available to buy starting noon local time. I refreshed the page until the buy option became available, but kept getting an error when submitting payment. Waited about half an hour and now it's sold out. Ni modo I guess.
My quest to not ever have one is right on track.
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamHardware/SteamController
You can 3d print your own and play pretend!
Nah, I'm currently printing a undergravel for a six gallon round Koller fish tank. Much more fun.
I retired the payment for about 15 times with 2 in my order basket, then it worked and should be here next week.
Anaeijon will receive 30 controllers by next week
DO NOT BUY THEM FROM EBAY!
or any other one of those websites ... the resellers are scum and you've waited this long, you can wait longer! hold strong!
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No point anyway. It's not like they're difficult to manufacture or constrained by available components.
Don’t jinx us… we’re in the middle of a war, there are new tariffs every other day. I’m sure something could happen to the controllers supply chain.
Actually, that is a good point.. That being said, Steam as a company stays entirely apolitical.
However, of course, someone at Valve would simply need to whisper anything Anti-trump, and Trump would actively invoke laws to sabotage them, and call them woke or whatever
Just give it a week and they'll be back in stock.
Ah, one of the dozen people who actually liked the original Steam controller! A rare sight indeed.
There are dozens of us!
I actually didn't like it very much. Had to dig it out of a drawer for this photo. The face buttons are in an awkward position and the left trackpad is a terrible D-pad substitute. But I loved the gyro, and if it didn't invent grip buttons it was my first exposure to them at least, and both MS and Nintendo liked them, too, since the Xbox elite controller and switch 2 pro controller have them. I saw the potential and looked forward to Valve improving it, and by all accounts this new iteration is an improvement.
I'm also a sucker for mold-breaking attempts at better ergonomics. I own a Twiddler. Still can't get the hang of it, but nothing ventured nothing gained.
if it didn't invent grip buttons it was my first exposure to them
Ironically, I think it was those very buttons that infringed on a preexisting patent and led to Valve getting sued
Exact same, I loved the features but it just wasn't very comfortable in my hands. The steam deck feels way better to me, and the new controller looks like that minus the screen, so I've been super excited for this.
I loved my OG steam controller! I wished I had bought more than one when it died 7 years later. Thing was bomb proof. Never had any other controller last that long say for anything built after the N64 anyway.
It took a lot of getting used to. So great for pc games.
Hoping the new one is just as durable. I guess it's reparable too!
They did a hardware launch perfectly for the Deck - Account of minimum age needed, and a queue to buy as devices became available. Why the hell did they go with the old, shit version that only serves scalpers that use bots to scoop up every item?
Oof. That's rough. But given how insanely profitable these ~90 minutes must have been for Valve, I'm sure they'll be back in stock in a few weeks since none of the components seem to have supply issues.
I managed to get one by just spam-clicking the continue button for about two minutes. I know, I'm part of the problem.
I managed to get one by just spam-clicking the continue button for about two minutes. I know, I’m part of the problem.
I tried that too but stopped because I thought it might think I was a bot.
I have mine still. Bought it at launch. Never went back. Best controller I've ever had the pleasure to use. I genuinly LOVE everything about it. I don't even want the new one.
Can't improve upon perfection
I was getting an error as well. I saw someone on Reddit say they just spammed the "confirm" button and it eventually went through.
So I did that for like 10 min and it worked
It will be back in stock reasonably quickly imo.
No issues getting in AU, I think they were live 3am our time and I ordered mine lazily at 9am post-coffee. Almost forgot to do it
I'll also be waiting for a mext batch... the steam frame will be a nightmare to get if it's like this too... i have close to 9 000 hours in steamVR i wish that would count for something when getting the new headset.
I barely managed to get one, had to spend well over 20 minutes spamming the continue button, because the first couple of times I passed that screen something else failed (they even charged me one of those times but the purchase didn't finish, so I imagine it will get reverted in a while).
I liked my old steam controller more in theory than in practice, I still have it and use it occasionally but it's more of a rarity when I think the features make up for the lack of d-pad and right stick. But the Steam Deck is just ideal for me, from the moment I grabbed it I have been wanting a standalone controller with that same format and inputs.
In any case, sorry you didn't get one now, I'm sure they'll be back in stock very quickly, it's likely they did a small batch first to test the waters on how much people wanted this. But production is probably ramping up just like what happened with the Steam Deck.
You can always go pay 2-3x and buy one from ebay... it's super convenient and you also pay them the shipping!
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They've released more in waves with other hardware. Just keep checking on the hour for the first few hours, keep subscribed to reddit/Lemmy subs of steam. Or stay up till 10pm, midnight and watch again tomorrow at the same time as this release.
The original was great for games that weren't made for a normal controller. And FPS games.