Valve has some excellent news and dangerous information about Steam Controllers. The excellent news: In the event you make a reservation for a Steam Controller, the corporate will now present you one in every of three estimates of if you’ll have the ability to really order your gamepad: by September 2026, by December 2026, or someday in 2027. The dangerous information: Any reservations made in the present day “point out a 2027 date for transport,” Valve says.
“Now we have no plans to cease making Steam Controller,” in accordance with Valve. “However as we have a look at the present demand in comparison with what number of we all know we will make by the top of the 12 months, we wish to handle expectations as a lot as we will with reference to when people can count on to obtain their order.”
Valve’s very good new Steam Controller went on sale in early Could, and the preliminary rush led some individuals to run into irritating issues with making an attempt to take a look at forward of the controllers ultimately going out of inventory. Just a few days later, the corporate introduced that it could be implementing a reservations queue for consumers so they may get on a waitlist. In the event you’re on the waitlist, if you get notified {that a} Steam Controller is prepared so that you can purchase, you may have 72 hours to truly make the order.
“Once we launched Steam Controller final month, we rapidly noticed that preliminary demand exceeded our expectations,” Valve says. “Switching to a reservation queue has (hopefully) lower down on the complications on the client aspect, and for us it’s additionally been useful as we plan forward and attempt to get as many out as rapidly as we’re ready.”
All three of Valve’s massive {hardware} merchandise have been delayed from a deliberate early 2026 launch because of the component crisis, Valve nonetheless hasn’t introduced when the Steam Machine PC or Steam Body VR headset may go on sale. Nonetheless, simply yesterday, Valve officially launched its massive SteamOS 3.8 replace with assist for the Steam Machine. It’s additionally been importing quite a lot of {hardware} into the US as of late.