Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations

a day ago by tal to c/games

The Steam Controller stock shortage may last until 2027 as Valve introduces new registration options for the device.

Coelacanth 19 points a day ago

I'm starting to regret not getting one.

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tal 21 points a day ago

I mean, they aren't going to stop making them if there are people buying them. I'm sure that, at some point, there will be enough manufactured to catch up with demand.

2026 has been a pretty exasperating year to try to get ahold of a lot of pieces of hardware, I have to say.

I'm wondering if --- assuming Valve still is trying to release the Steam Machine this year, which according to the last news I've seen, they're still saying that they're going to do --- this shortage is gonna dick up their Steam Machine sales. I mean, the Steam Controller is a nice-to-have on a regular PC, but for people with a Steam Machine in the living room, they probably are going to want it even more --- like, there it's a lot more important to have the touchpads to replace a mouse, remote power-on capability, etc.

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IronKrill 7 points a day ago

I have been assuming they had stock set aside for some kind of Machine + Controller bundle.

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tal 1 point 12 hours ago

I have been assuming they had stock set aside for some kind of Machine + Controller bundle.

Could be --- I haven't seen news along those lines and the Steam Machine description on their website doesn't presently say anything about coming with a Steam Controller --- but I suppose that it's not unreasonable. But it's also worth remembering that they're probably aiming for the console market with the Steam Machine, and a lot of people use consoles for local multiplayer games and are probably going to want more than one controller for that.

Now, local multiplayer is less common among PC games than console games. But, especially with console ports, it's definitely out there.

https://store.steampowered.com/search?tags=7368&supportedlang=english&ndl=1

That says that there are 7,933 games currently on the Steam store that are tagged as Local Multiplayer.

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