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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.
I still have one I never used. You can buy mine (I'm in the EU though). Send me a pm
But know this isn't the new one. It's the same as in the picture, which is years old.
Hey, at least you didn't camp in front of the store and waited for hours in the freezing cold to go home empty handed. That's how new hardware releases used to be. They haven't restocked the Steam Deck in months but they will restock the controller soon, I believe.
Damn, I must have gotten lucky. I bought one around around 9:57 PST, no refreshed, no reloads, no issues. I'm sorry you missed out. Hopefully they'll be in stock soon. I've got a friend that also missed out.
I know. I was expecting issues, though. Steam pretty much always has issues with their site at the start of sales and new hardware launches, so this was entirely predictable.
On the flip side, every time this has happened when I was around to notice, there were obvious signs the site was failing from the get-go. Slow page loads, error messages, pages just not loading at all, etc. This time around, the site loaded up fine. Page navigation was quick as normal. Buttons worked. Cart worked. Checkout seemed to be working.
Then BAM. Error message when paying. I tried a few different payment methods and even checked on other devices.
So, I stepped away for a bit. Came back and I was surprised that the controllers were still in stock. Figured I'd try again. That time, I got a different error message when I attempted to pay. I thought maybe there's something fishy with my cart/session so I removed the controller from my cart, expecting to re-add it and try checking out again. Only, when I went back to the controller page, it had flipped over to out of stock. It was literally only a matter of maybe 20 seconds since I'd last checked the page when it was showing as in stock. Missed it by that much.
Oh, the picture is an old controller? What's different about the new one?