Steam Controller more popular than Valve expected - they're working on stock issues

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere is a cynical side of me that says the buzz surrounding "Gizmo sales crash site, gizmo sells out in hours" is bigger than the buzz surrounding "gizmo sells this many units out of a large stockpile" even if the second number is bigger. So, what's the motivation to fix it?

It's definitely a better headline than "$vendor gets rid of unwanted inventory in a massive firesale," that's for sure.

I dont get why the scalpers are such a big factor at all. No ne has gotten just one controller yet, and still their scheme seems to find customers. We know that there will be enough controllers for everyone, so in my book, anyone who pays the scalp-extra can´t be helped. I want so many things very bad, but the anticipation for things is a nice thing, right? It just sucks if you don´t know if you get a chance to get a toy.

Quoting: JohnologueI'm sure with this first run, people were ready to just keep buying until it sold out.
I assume the next batch will be more normal.

Maybe they should just charge extra for the first run with full transparency that the price goes down after. People who want it NOW can pay, and scalpers are told upfront "you are going to lose a lot of money".

Probably still a bad idea for a lot of reasons. If it was an easy problem, I'm sure people would've had a fix for it by now.

I'm not so sure the next batch will be much more normal. A DigitalFoundry YouTube poll with 20K responses had the following results: 8% got one, 9% didn't get one, 33% would get one later and 50% didn't want one.

The amount of people who didn't get one is just as large as the group that did. So Valve can sell that amount again. And possibly more, as there's even more people who might try to get it next batch as well.