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?
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.