{"id":62079,"date":"2026-06-19T23:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62079"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:43:42","slug":"valves-steam-controller-is-delayed-for-some-customers-until-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62079","title":{"rendered":"Valve&#8217;s Steam Controller is delayed for some customers until 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-header-data\">\n<div class=\"w-article-header-author-img\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-header-author-img\">\n<picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fauthors%2F6a306108a01d7-IMG_1172.JPG?fit=crop&amp;w=36&amp;h=36\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fauthors%2F6a306108a01d7-IMG_1172.JPG?fit=crop&amp;w=90&amp;h=90\" alt=\"4\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\"\/>\n                                            <\/picture>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p>\n                                                                        <time datetime=\"2026-06-19T15:20:59Z\"><span class=\"is-mobile-hidden\">Published<\/span> Jun 19, 2026, 11:20\u202fAM EDT<\/time>\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Valve says demand for its new PC controller has exceeded expectations<\/p>\n<div class=\"heading_image responsive-img img-size-heading-image-full-width   expandable \" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-1-20-screenshot.jpeg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Image: Valve&quot;\" data-is-feature-img=\"true\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-1-20-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=600&amp;h=338&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-1-20-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=600&amp;h=338&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-1-20-screenshot.jpeg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;dpr=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-1-20-screenshot.jpeg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;dpr=1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Steam Hardware Announcement 1-20 screenshot\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-1-20-screenshot.jpeg?&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-1-20-screenshot.jpeg?&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900\"\/>\n        <\/picture><small class=\"item-img-caption\">Image: Valve<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"content-block-regular\">\n<p>While Steam customers patiently wait for news on the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, Valve is still selling one piece of in-demand hardware, the Steam Controller. But with demand vastly exceeding supply of the new PC gamepad, Valve acknowledged it&#8217;s struggling to keep up and may not ship some reservations for the Steam Controller until 2027.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Valve said that reservations for the Steam Controller will now show when customers might get their hardware. &#8220;We have no plans to stop making Steam Controller. But as we look at the current demand compared to how many we know we can make by the end of the year, we want to manage expectations as much as we can with regards to when folks can expect to receive their order,&#8221; Valve said in a post on Steam.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape \">\n<div class=\"responsive-img  image-expandable  img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Image: Valve&quot;\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/><img width=\"1650\" height=\"928\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A still of two players using Steam Controllers to play on a handheld PC\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-hardware-announcement-2-6-screenshot.jpeg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/>\n        <\/picture><small class=\"body-img-caption\">Image: Valve<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Steam Controller reservations will now show the time frame that Valve expects them to ship. There are now three estimated order windows, according to Valve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        By September 2026\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        By December 2026\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        2027\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Valve notes that the 2027 release window may not be set in stone \u2014 there&#8217;s a chance that customers who reserve a Steam Controller could get one before that. On Friday, when we tried to reserve a new Steam Controller, the shipping window was &#8220;2027,&#8221; indicating that Valve is heavily backed up on reservations.<\/p>\n<p>The $99 Steam Controller went up for sale in May, and Valve quickly sold out of the device. The company said it underestimated demand for the new controller and quickly opened a new reservation system for restocks of the hardware. Even though the controller isn&#8217;t constrained by volatile RAM prices and supply, there&#8217;s still the issue of printed circuit board prices spiking, thanks to Donald Trump&#8217;s war on Iran. While everything related to tech is awful right now, at least the Steam Controller itself is a solid piece of hardware.<\/p>\n<div class=\"display-card  article article-card small  no-badge  active-content                              \" data-include-community-rating=\"false\" id=\"steam-controller-2026-review\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<p>                        <img width=\"440\" height=\"248\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Steam Controller sits on a white mousepad.\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-controller-1.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=220&amp;h=124&amp;dpr=2\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-controller-1.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=220&amp;h=124&amp;dpr=2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\"><label>Related<\/label><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-display-card-content regular article-block\">\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThe Steam Controller is so close to being the perfect PC gamepad<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Valve&#8217;s second draft is a perfect match for Steam, but don&#8217;t expect to use it elsewhere<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/steam-controller-preorders-delayed-2027-valve-pc-gamepad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published Jun 19, 2026, 11:20\u202fAM EDT Valve says demand for its new PC controller has exceeded expectations Image: Valve While Steam customers patiently wait for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5235,746,1429,3418,8372],"class_list":["post-62079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-controller","tag-customers","tag-delayed","tag-steam","tag-valves","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}