I received my Steam Controller a couple weeks ago. I just happened to check the Steam Controller page today and it let me place a second reservation. It looks like the hold on one reservation per account has been lifted.
You are now allowed to reserve a second of the things we don’t have.
You are allowed to reserve another as soon as your first one ships. The limit is 1 at a time not one permanently.
I didn’t think it was permanently. Valve originally said, “for now, customers who have already purchased a Steam Controller are not yet eligible to reserve another Steam Controller” (source). We didn’t receive an update on when they would allow users to jump back in the queue for another one, but now we can!
Good, need two so I can race them.
Mr. President, the second Steam Controller just hit the store
It’s probably going to take some time before you can buy it though. I reserved mine on May 9th, estimation is that I can place my order in December. 😞
Oh mate! I reserved it on May 8th, ordered June 6th, and it arrived on June 15th.
Damn, that’s blazingly fast by comparison! Seeing as I’ll not be able to get my hands on one anytime soon, care to share your experience with it?
Quite good, so far. To be honest I haven’t got around to game that much so I’m still to try it to its full potential, but I can already say that it’s super nice and comfortable. If I had to I’d certainly wait until December to get it and not get carried away and buy another (like I was tempted to do), unless you need a controller sooner or see another one that you like better, idk.
I half wonder if it’s regional, I reserved mine when that went up and mine showed up a few weeks back, it shipped out of the states though so idk.
If you have a steamdeck, layout is close but it’s way more comfortable to use the trackpad. Rear buttons are a lot nicer than the ones of the deck. It feels closer to the oled deck stick wise, I have a lcd one which I swear has way farther travel. I haven’t figured out what to do with the grip inputs yet, not super sure how useful they’ll be for me to be honest but cool it’s there.
Small things and totally software that I appreciated, noticed that the back buttons are one by default with it, maybe that’s across the board now, was a small but appreciated change because I was always having to turn that on. Also like that steam input can ignore trackpad inputs if you’re touching the sticks.
Same 😑 stuck using a dumb Microslop keyboard with trackpad to control my media center.
I noticed that. Estimated ship time is 2027 though. But still pretty awesome
Is that only if you’ve already received one, or can you reserve two controllers at the same time? When I go into Steam, it only gives an option to cancel my existing reservation.
I’m referring to users who have received one already. As far as I’m aware, there’s still not a way to reserve multiple controllers at the same time.
That sounds like fun sometime next year.
Do normal PS5 controllers work on the Steam Machine?
EDIT: misspelled “PS5”, so had to correct it.
I’m assuming you mean PS5 controllers, and yes they should work fine. I believe you can also use the controller’s gyro and touchpad area.
One weird issue is that while the controllers work normally wirelessly, I think it has to be plugged in to use some features like the adaptive triggers, for games that specifically support it.
This is because certain features (like haptic feedback and adaptive triggers), like the triggers, work by exposing them as an audio device to the host system, which isn’t functional over Bluetooth (the reason I heard is that Bluetooth just doesn’t have the latency for that, if there are third party projects that have found a way around that then great!).
All normal controller features work fine, you just can’t use some of the PS5 exclusive stuff. I don’t know of any games, including PS5 games ported to PC, that absolutely require the wired gestures.
Note this applies to all PCs, regardless of OS.
I can’t seem to find it but I swear I saw a project to enable this while doomscrolling
Oops, yeah. I meant the PS5 controller
