I’m job searching right now and can’t really justify the Steam Controller purchase this week. Before getting laid off and RAM-pocalypse, the plan was to buy a Steam Machine and controller when it was going to release early 2026, but clearly that plan has changed a bit.

The FOMO is hitting after the previews this week! Do we think we need to worry about Steam Controller availability later in the year?

I use a DualSense Edge for my PS5, and either an old PS controller when docked or my 8BitDo SN30 when I travel for the Steam Deck. If I had the Steam Machine I’d buy it instantly, but who knows when that will happen and how much it’ll cost.

  • commander@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    what percentage of the 10 million people do you expect to buy a steam controller and how much would that compare to playstation, nintendo and xbox owners? That’s 10 million steam gamers that already have gamepads to play on steam and the other 85% playing with I’m assuming mouse and keyboard. PS5 has sold ~100 million where each package in a gamepad plus all the additional that you see in stores and have been purchased. Do you believe this steam controller will be hard to find and why? It seems to me that the manufacturing of gamepads is not a struggle considering how many are available and that the steam controller has a release date already rather than the machine or frame

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Mostly arguing that the “primary purchasers” would only be steam machine users.

      For my part, I have a deck and I’m really excited to get the steam controller as my elite 2 controller is already suffering stick drift and bumper issues.

      Edit: To clarify, I’ll use it on my desktop, not with the deck ha

      Also I’ll add the steam controller looks to be basically a premium controller for about half the price of most at that range.