The anticipated Steam controller was the first new Steam hardware to go live for the public to preorder. It didn’t even take an hour before the first stock officially ran out. What’s worse is that they’re being sold again, though within third-party sites at much higher prices than the original $99.99.
Valve had acknowledged surprising demand and confirmed another incoming batch before opening the new reservation queue. Anyone who hasn’t preordered the Steam controller is eligible to apply for a reserved controller, while others who already purchased a controller aren’t able to join at the moment. Once the controller stock is refreshed, Valve will send a notice to reserved users and complete their orders, which are estimated to occur at least by next week for users in the United States and Canada, while players in Europe, Australia, and the United Kingdom will be prioritized in the following weeks. Customers can only apply for a reserved Steam controller after following the eligibility guidelines:
- Reservations limited to one Steam Controller per user
- Users must confirm an order email to purchase Steam Controlled within 72 hours
- Must own a legit Steam account with good standing
- Must have purchased on Steam after April 27, 2026
Valve still hasn’t updated its other confirmed hardware, the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame. The current condition of the RAM market has greatly hindered the company from finalizing the launch of new hardware, which was originally planned for early 2026. The company is looking forward to the future by investing time to make a successor to the Steam Deck.
Pierre-Loup Griffais, Valve programmer, mentioned the Steam Deck 2 during an interview with IGN, mentioning its progress. It appears to still be very early in development, as the company is confirming its overall design and appearance. It’s also emphasizing the need to push for game processing and performance by working on its internal hardware, making the games satisfying enough for the audience to view it as a next-gen PC handheld. It probably won’t be mentioned to the public anytime soon, but it will continue to develop for its future launch.
“We’re hard at work on it; And we expect Steam Deck 2 will be a lot of the same where a lot of what we’re doing here will be learnings that build up to it; So we’ve been working back from silicon advancements and architectural improvements, and I think we have a pretty good idea of what the next version of Steam Deck is going to be, but right now there’s no offerings in that landscape, in the SoC [System on a Chip] landscape, that we think would truly be a next-gen performance Steam Deck.”
