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Valve is so behind on Steam Controller orders that some won’t ship until 2027 (www.theverge.com)

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's a great controller, but for me personally it's just way too expensive. Also, I'm never gonna use the trackpads outside of a Steam Deck.

I'd consider my current controller (GameSir Supernova) to be the best one I've ever used. For the price of one Steam Controller I could get 2.5 of those. It also comes with a very convenient charging station, which you can plug the receiver into, and then it's a 2-in-1.

I rarely criticize Valve, but their recent pricing is out of this world. I have no idea what their profit margins are on these devices, but I just cannot imagine them being competitive.

As much as I love my og LCD Deck, I'd never buy it at the current price. Same for the controller.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

The current Deck pricing is probably out of their hands, memory prices are crazy. It's not just Valve, the Lenovo legion go handhelds went up by about $400 for the 16GB models and $600-700 for the 32GB models. The Asus ROG/Xbox handhelds haven't increased in price yet, but I suspect that probably means they either overestimated demand or were able to negotiate a fixed price contract before prices got crazy. Either way they'll probably shoot up soon as well.

The controller has less reason to be expensive, although it does have several premium features beyond your normal controller. They priced it between something like an standard xbox controller ($65) and an xbox elite controller ($150-200), so in that context it doesn't seem that bad.