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.
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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!
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
Or they could just be caught in the crossfire, like they already have with the RAM shortage
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.
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
why is today reminisce about projector day?
I used the OG steam controller when I had a projector setup, I’d turn my office chair (that I used at home) around to look at the wall instead of the computer and use the virtual keyboard/mouse for films or watching stuff, or even playing games. Although it did take a lot to adapt to some which I preferred to use a regular controller. I forget if it was Just Cause 3/4 I played the shit out of with the steam controller or something else.
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?
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
… except for the rumble. Worst rumble by far, holy shit. But wonderfull controller otherwise, love mine so much.
I don’t really like much rumble to begin with so for me it’s great. But I can see why some don’t like it
Honestly I wish they had kept the upturned grips. Those felt really comfy.
I’ve had 2 different ones, and both got the “R1” button broken. It’s a pity because it’s the best controller I’ve ever used
I have repaired this myself at least 4 different times. The piece is so flimsy. Still love this controller.
I’ll sorry to hear that. I suppose I’ve been fortunate enough to never have any issues at all with mine. I will be a sad day when it gives up. I don’t think I could play Elden Ring with any other controller.
The only thing that appeals to me with the SC2 is having 4 back buttons. I love my OG, but I often struggle to decide upon where to bind CTRL or SHIFT modifiers. I like to use the existing back buttons for mode-shifting.
I recently setup my OG for playing Endless Sky. It’s wonderful. On a low-power arm64 machine as well.
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
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.
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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 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.
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.
It does. You had your fun, now it’s time fit the 0 hours gang.
I really hope a lot of new people jump in and discover how truly incredible VR games are :)
What are 3 of your favorite? That aren’t half life?
For a quick answer i’ll give you my most played VR games and i might update this comment tomorrow with actual preferences. Beatsaber, skyrim VR, grimlord, legendary tales, windlands, blade and sorcery, payday 2, behemoth, …
Thanks
Well mateo311 just made a new top 100 VR games so here you go XD i mostly agree with the choices but i only play PCVR so i don’t know the psvr2 and quest games he mentioned. https://youtu.be/3oxbi7OoSLc
Couple thousand hours on the og steam controller didn’t help me today.
I think the price will throttle demand a bit more with the frame.
It’ll be in stock again soon I’m certain. They’re gamepads, not limited edition Pokemon cards or super cutting edge HBM memory chips
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.
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.
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.
Take it from me guys, I was the early adopter and my experience showed me that as great as they were, they suffered major build problems that were only exposed when in the hands of millions. The second round of builds were much better.
I have been drooling for this controller for years, but I’m more than happy to be patient this round.
For those wondering I went through 17. I have no reason to lie, I love them so much I only used them, but they broke so easily.
yeah, but that was their first experience with hardware like this. there have been 2 steam decks since then.
Yeah I’m not quite sure what meaning this would have. Kind of specious reasoning.
The controller and the deck are two completely different things.
not completely. the deck had a lot of time to get trackpads and steam input right. and build quality is great on the deck, it’s a much more complex piece of hardware and it didn’t have too many issues for first revisions
Yet we can see that they are completely different devices. I don’t quite understand how you can overlook what I’m saying.
same!
because by that logic steam controller 1 and steam controller 2 are also completely different devices and your past experience is inapplicable.
or we can accept that it was valve’s first foray into making hardware and they probably learned a thing or two in the last 10 years on how to make something that doesn’t fall apart. don’t quite understand how you can overlook what I’m saying
The disconnect seems to be that you think because modules have been installed in the deck, that somehow contributes to the build of the controller.
And that’s where I don’t agree.
Explains why my gen1 controller feels like shit. I never understood why people like them.
The haptics are worse than 90s 3rd party n64 controllers bought from a thrift store
