Valve give more detail on Steam Controller reservations - you'll be waiting a while

To me that seems pretty nuts. Over 6 months if you reserve from today.

It's sugar in the fuel tank for those that want a Controller to use with their Machine. Unless they've held enough back for bundles.

Heh, I wasn't planning to order one soon, but if it's shipping in 2027, I might as well get in line!

Gosh, I can't imagine how it will go with the Steam Frame.

As far as I know, they manufacture the Steam Controller in house? If so, expanding production capacity is harder than just ordering bigger production batches.

Quoting: CatKillerIt's sugar in the fuel tank for those that want a Controller to use with their Machine. Unless they've held enough back for bundles.

I can only assume the bundles will be accounted for (although I expect they'll only have supply for half a moment anyway). From my understanding every steam machine will come with a SC2 right?
I wonder if they'll employ reservations from the get go with the frame/machine. Part of me thinks not, they'll wait until the initial supply runs dry first (which agian, I expect will be a few hours at most)

Quoting: TurkeysteaksI can only assume the bundles will be accounted for (although I expect they'll only have supply for half a moment anyway). From my understanding every steam machine will come with a SC2 right?

I don't think so. I'm sure that there will be bundles offered of machine and controller, just as I'm sure there'll be bundles offered of machine and frame. But I don't think the machine will come with a controller as standard.

Made for Steam Controller

Steam Machine comes with a built-in wireless adapter, just for pairing with Steam Controller. (Up to four with a single adapter!) This means you can pair your Steam Controller without its puck, and you can wake your Steam Machine without leaving your couch.

Note that it says that it comes with the built-in antenna (because they can't really build some units without it), not that it comes with a controller.

They're struggling with supply on the controller, and they're struggling for price for the machine, so it makes sense for Valve to keep them separate items by default. See, for example, Xbone and Kinect.

Woah! Mine, which I reserved on may 9th 9:30pm, is slated for December... Ok!

But I'm quite sure that Valve put some Steam Controller stocks in reserve for the Steam Machine launch since it will be sold in 4 configurations (512gb, 512gb+sc, 2tb, 2tb+sc)... Unless they decide to remove 2 of these skus.

Last edited by Mohandevir on 18 Jun 2026 at 11:52 pm UTC

Just got the "72 hours to finish order" email for my steam controller reservation. Went to the steam page manually to check if the email was scam, nope had the finish order button. Should be getting it in the mail early next week. So looks like they are getting stock in and its not a hard wait til september.

I reserved mine like a day after the reservations went up and it's already "by December 2026" jesus christ reserving today you may not have a planet to ship to by the time it's ready

Man i really hope for everyone here in line that the real shipping will be much earlier. This many months ... that's hard. :(

I am so glad I was part of the first order wave 🥲 2027 is insane!

I reserved one when they became available again. Recieved it two weeks ago? Something like that. Valve really didn't expect such high demand it seems...

Quoting: MohandevirWoah! Mine, which I reserved on may 9th 9:30pm, is slated for December... Ok!

Reserved mine on the 8th, slated for September... Seems I was slightly less unlucky.
I was hoping for a faster delivery, as the controller shouldn't be dependent on RAM, but...

Quoting: jbbandos

Quoting: MohandevirWoah! Mine, which I reserved on may 9th 9:30pm, is slated for December... Ok!

Reserved mine on the 8th, slated for September... Seems I was slightly less unlucky.
I was hoping for a faster delivery, as the controller shouldn't be dependent on RAM, but...

Reserved mine on 10th – I'll be waiting 'til 2027. 😢

I was gonna reserve one next week when I get paid, expecting it to take a few weeks, not until next year that's pretty wild

Dang I reserved on May 8th and cant get one till September.

I'm not so confident on their next machines but atleast the reservation system is working.

Really wish we saw the Steam Machine and Frame prices earlier then I'd know if I wanna jump in on that 15min order window.

I was thinking they would do bundles with the machine, so I wonder if they're holding back x thousands of them for that purpose when the machine launches.

The Steam Deck queue felt a bit like an event, but I'm not queuing up for a (modern) controller, guys and gals. It's an insane world we live in, but this is the line for me.

It just seems really weird to me that Valve underestimated just how popular this controller would be. “Steam Controller 2” as a topic was pretty consistently published/talked about since the original went out of production.

Quoting: charles222It just seems really weird to me that Valve underestimated just how popular this controller would be. “Steam Controller 2” as a topic was pretty consistently published/talked about since the original went out of production.

Maybe, but you don't know how many they estimated or how many more were sold than their estimate. They sold well over a million of the original over however many years it was available. If they've sold that many already, that's insane and probably not something they could've prepared for even if they wanted to. Even Nintendo runs out of stock on their Switch devices quickly.