i still have my original steam controler from 20 years ago, i am waiting for the steamframe, hope this means it will also come soon.
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You gave me a mini heart attack, but I'm pretty sure you mean ~10 years ago.
Steamframes the one I'm most interested in. I missed out on the pandemic VR chat phenomenon, kinda hope the release re-ignites a little interest in that with folks.
What if it's $2000
i will miss out on it again :)
Originally, they said it would be less than $1,000
It only has 16GiB of LPDDR5 RAM, which is somewhere around $250 at currently inflated prices direct to consumers
So I'd think they'll manage to keep it under $1,250
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I'm just happy that VR game devs will have more potential players on steam.
Ah, small country life...
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Nice. I've been using an 8bitdo, but kinda struggled with my hybrid PC w/ Tv all the way over by the couch setup. A steam controller might be a little less wonky than using KDE connect on my phone
damn, I just use a wireless keyboard with a trackpad and media keys.
Wireless keyboard on knees and a little round table for my mouse here.
Or just a keyboard with a track pad built in.
https://www.amazon.com/CZUR-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Multi-Device-Rechargeable/dp/B0GQ8SNSV6
not for gaming, of course, just for navigating the OS. keep the controller for t3h ga3mz
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And I will be buying one at 10:01am.
And by 10:00.1 it will be sold out.
10:00.1
ten hours, zero minutes, and one tenth of a minute (6 seconds)
or ten minutes, zero seconds, and one tenth of a second?
either way fuck the scalpers that are gonna try to ruin this for everyone
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I'll be trying, but there's a 99% chance it's not available in my country 😭
It was the same for the original Steam controller, and the Deck on launch... Even the Index is still pretty hard to obtain.
Yeah Valve doesn't ship to NZ. I have a Steam Controller 1 and have previously had an Index as well, but I had to freight forward to get them, and I seem to recall needing some trickery of changing the Steam account to another region to get it to work.
I looked into that with the Index but the price was horrendous... I really hope MightyApe or PBTech do some importing this time around.
Steam's webshop servers are going to fucking explode.
The last time I saw something put a hurting on Steam's servers was the release of Silksong. I don't think this is going to crash things too hard because they'll sell out in an hour.
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$150 CAD. Ouch.
Could have been much worse tbh. The Razer Wolverine V3 Pro costs roughly double that, for example 🤷🏻
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/04/steam-controller-the-ars-technica-review
Strange review that fixates on the price, which doesn't seem that high to me.
$100 is fairly steep, but I'll shell out a bit extra for quality. My Xbox controllers have lasted me years, but at least one of the recurring problems I've seen with them after so much use could be remedied by the better tech in the sticks in these things.
$100 is a ripoff for a controller.
Signed, A dumbass who paid $200 for a dual sense edge, lmao
At ~1 hour after the post I'm unable to add to my wish list from my Steam mobile app, indicates "Reservation Servers are busy, please try again" without response.
I've had it wishlisted since it was announced, may be a region thing?
all set, resolved itself
May the Fourth be with us all.
Control, control! You must learn control!
It's crazy, I haven't bought a console in a while, so I've actually never spent more than $50 on a single controller. That said, I already think I'm going to buy this.
I was really impressed when I used a steam controller at pax years ago, but didn't end up pulling the trigger, my usb Xbox controller was good enough. But that controller has some significant stick drift now, and I have had situations where I really wished it was wireless.
Honestly, I just have a good feeling about this device. I don't know if it'll be as reliable as items like my Logitech mouse for instance, but I'm hoping it lives up to that.
I really wish they had either made it modular or made a variation that had Xbox style stick layout, I find the dualshock layout with the side-by-side joysticks uncomfortable, would've been the endgame controller.
This controller looks quite neat. The part I don’t like is, unless I’m mistaken, it requires steam and won’t work on its own.
From reviews, it sounds like it functions as a normal Xbox controller without Steam running to augment it. Most of the time. I heard Retro Arch reads it as a mouse and keyboard, which is how the old Steam controller worked.
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Finally
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