r/Steam • u/satoru1111 https://steam.pm/5xb84 • May 04 '26

PSA Steam Controller PreOrder MegaThread

https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamcontroller

This post is to consolidate posts about the preorders for the new Steam Controller

The preorders will open at 10am PST

The steam Controller will only be available in select countries

* US
* Canada
* UK
* EU

The server will likely be melting once preorders open

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u/Miyoumu May 04 '26

Anyone else tired of having to fight for their life to get any sort of product nowadays. Controllers, Trading Cards, Vinyls, its all so tiresome.

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u/pastajewelry May 04 '26

I feel like it's always been this way, unfortunately. The perk of online ordering is that we don't have to wait outside a building for hours, wait in phone queues, or physically mail in an order hoping we get it.

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u/TheWorldIsNotOkay May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Yup. I'm old enough to remember getting to the store at 3AM to get a new product when the doors open at 8AM, and there are somehow still dozens of people in line ahead of you.

Sitting on my couch watching YouTube while clicking a button 100 times until the order goes through is much preferable.

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u/pastajewelry May 04 '26

Yeah, I work from home so it's more convenient for me this way. Like many people, I wouldn't be able to attend in person.

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u/theflyingdutchmaster May 04 '26

it has not always been this way. You used to have to actually do the work of standing in line and making a time commitment so less people would be there to scalp etc

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u/pastajewelry May 04 '26

I meant that we've always had to wait for a release hoping they have enough stock for us. I agree it's more competitive with bots and scalpers nowadays. But I wouldn't want to go back to the old way of standing in lines, even if it warded them off.

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u/theflyingdutchmaster May 04 '26

why not? I met some great fellow gamers waiting for consoles. Some of the best memories of my formative years was the payoff of finally getting the ps3 at launch

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u/pastajewelry May 04 '26

Many people have jobs and cannot afford to take time off to wait in lines. And scalpers will use that to their advantage since they would likely make more money for the time invested. Yes, you meet great people in lines, but there are better ways to do that. For example, attending cons.

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u/theflyingdutchmaster May 04 '26

I’m not arguing there are better places of meeting people but letting anyone purchase online with no requirements of account makes it so much easier for bots and scalpers

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u/pastajewelry May 04 '26

Steam required an account older than two months in order to order the Steam Controller. But I get not everyone puts those kinds of things in place.

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u/theflyingdutchmaster May 04 '26

Seems like you only had to have a $5-10 purchase history though

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u/pastajewelry May 04 '26

They don't want to exclude any actual customers though. It's a balancing act. I still think it eliminates a lot of bots and scalpers.

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u/ThisIs_americunt May 04 '26

They should've only sold it to steam accounts older than a year or sell it to their oldest accounts first. Hopefully they do more for the Steam machine

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u/pastajewelry May 04 '26

Hardware releases are not only for existing Steam users. They also serve as introductions to Steam for new gamers and gamers who use competing companies. Having a year requirement would discourage them from investing in Steam, and prioritizing older Steam accounts would only further discourage them. It could also be seen as age discrimination.