The new Steam Controller from Valve is out now - some early thoughts https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-new-steam-controller-from-valve-is-out-now-some-early-thoughts/

[sabrinabonfert@wandering.shop]

@gamingonlinux I'm trying to buy one and failing because of some technical issues lol.

[dwm@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux Yeah, trying to order, and Steam is saying there are problems proceeding with the transaction. Clearly under quite heavy load..

[r0k@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux US is saying that too now

[ben@mstdn.games]

@gamingonlinux Managed to snag one with 3-5 days delivery. Was able to put it in the cart a few minutes before official time, and then had to re-try to actually place the order until 4 minutes past

[woodlandspirit@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux Personally holding off for now but being a Steam Deck owner I see the potential this thing has.

[waxingtonknee@mastodon.org.uk]

@gamingonlinux I tried to checkout a 18:00:02 and have failed to complete my order because the payment system is busy. 10 day delivery now, think I'll leave it a few weeks.

[calcprogrammer1@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux Steam having payment processing issues. Did they learn nothing from the disaster that was the Steam Deck launch day?

[gamingonlinux@mastodon.social]

Checking out now notes "Delivery delays are expected due to high order volume"

[benkramer@dice.camp]

@gamingonlinux
US is now out of stock.

[calcprogrammer1@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux OUT OF STOCK ALREADY

[fieldswork@wetdry.world]

@gamingonlinux made the rookie mistake of not adding money to my steam wallet in anticipation of the store getting absolutely thrashed, guess I’ll be waiting a while for my order

[augierle42e@diaspodon.fr]

@gamingonlinux Can't place an order right now. I reckon this is a tremendous success.

[shapr@recurse.social]

@benkramer I just missed it

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@gamingonlinux should've made them quieter

ba dum tsss

[benkramer@dice.camp]

@shapr
I spent 34 minutes trying to check out. They were really not prepared for the demand.

[flaky@app.wafrn.net]

@CalcProgrammer1@mastodon.social @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social

Probably thought the controller wouldn't have as high a demand because it's a controller. Boy were they wrong.

[calcprogrammer1@mastodon.social]

@flaky @gamingonlinux The same happened for the Steam Deck. It happened again for the Steam Deck OLED. It happened again now with the Steam Controller. It will happen again with the Steam Machine and Steam Frame. It seems like they haven't bothered to do anything about it. They always underestimate demand and their servers always crap out under the load.

[carlwatkins@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux I was going to put an order in around 2pm Eastern (about an hour after going on sale) but it's just displaying "sold out" with no waiting list option or anything.

[ve4grm@dice.camp]

@gamingonlinux
and now ebay is full of controllers for 2-3x their price. Damn scalpers.

[ysaeldev@mastodon.social]

@gamingonlinux time to wait. Besides, hopefully more firmware updates will come by the time its available for more people. I will personally wait for a sale on it, so maybe a year or so. Or who knows maybe this year's winter sale