Are You Prepared To Wait Until 2027 For A Steam Controller?

If you’re unfamiliar, the Steam Controller is Valve’s latest proprietary gamepad designed to work exclusively with Steam. Engadget’s Jessica Conditt reviewed it back in April, and said it was a sturdy and sleek gamepad with high-end TMR thumbsticks. The only downside, really, is that it’s designed specifically to work just with Steam, rather than as a generic PC gamepad, as part of Valve’s quest to maintain dominance.

“Initial demand exceeded our expectations,” wrote an unnamed company spokesperson after a heavy sip of understatement juice. “As we look at the current demand compared to how many we know we can make by the end of the year, we cant to manage expectations as much as we can,” they added. Of course, the same statement does say that the company will try to get as many devices out as it is able to achieve. But it’s worth bearing these delays in mind given Valve is also pledging to get its Steam Machine PC/console and Steam Frame headset into people’s homes this summer.