Important edit: The Steam Controller is not totally out of stock. They are toggling availability to limit orders. If you have not yet gotten one, continue checking the site.
Who all managed to get one?
Who’s with me in the “impatiently has to wait for them to return to stock” camp?
What excites you most about the Steam Controller?
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It went on sale at 1:00 in my time zone. I had it in my cart at 1:00 and was trying to checkout before it ever hit 1:01, but all I got were errors when trying to continue to payment. Then out of stock. What a bunch of fucking bullshit. Like seriously, what the fuck else was I even supposed to do?
Same here. I was through the sequence and trying to buy by no later than maybe 1:00:10, and tried three different payment methods, all to no avail. I don’t think we had a chance on this go-round.
I am disproportionately angry about this for some reason. This has happened with several concerts I wanted to see, too. “Oh, you want tickets to an even marginally popular artist? Fuck you.” Then factor in how fucking expensive computer parts have become since all the AI shit a while back. I’m just so goddamn tired.
At least my beloved Pebble watch was resurrected.
The apparent issue is the payment processor (visa/etc) getting overloaded. To avoid it in the future it sounds like you can preload your steam account with the funds (~$108usd where I live due to 8% tax), which will let you bypass the worst of the checkout errors.
I’ll wait for the OLED version to drop to buy one /s
For real tho clear smoke plastic body with the orange accents would be pretty sick.
I just snag one.
Man I had a hard time battling with myself. On one side, I really want one and was waiting years for this even before the Steam Deck was on the market. On the other hand, my limit was 90 Euros (taxes included). And worse than that, it only functions with Steam. Yes, duh you say, its in the name, the Steam Controller. My hope was I could use it as a replacement for my controller acting as a regular gamepad without all the bells and whistles, playing emulators without Steam too. Looks like my that is not gonna happen anytime soon.
I’m pretty sure it’ll still work without Steam, you just might not have all the bells and whistles. But according to the site, it can connect to anything with Bluetooth.
Are you sure about that? There are people testing the Bluetooth connection on Android if I remember right, it would only act as mouse and keyboard device. On desktop I don’t know if anyone tested Bluetooth, but using the Dongle it only acts as mouse and keyboard device, until Steam launched.
But in general, I always ignore Bluetooth and only use 2.4ghz dongles (or similar). I’m not getting into this argumentation over or against Bluetooth, so please spare me that (since decades). But I’m curious how it acts with Bluetooth, without starting Steam.
I got one, took about 11 min of trying before the card would process. During that time I would try 2x every 30 sec to 1 min.
Store was seemingly working fine, just payment processors being overloaded as far as I could tell.
Got mine 3 minutes before the hour. I was smashing that F5 button like I was Brock Lesnar in a squash match. My friend also got one same time, although he had the error screen a few times before it went through.
Good luck on the next releases of the machine and frame, gents 🫡
Well, anyone who managed to get one, lemme know how the d-pad is on it. Is it better than the OG Steam Deck D-pad or the OLED D-pad? I changed my OLED d-pad to mechanical buttons, and it’s felt much more accurate for 2d platformers and fighters.
I managed to get one right before it was supposed to be available. I’ll decide if I want to get more later.
I’m in the “I still have the original, but will probably buy one”
