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Steam Controller Review Goes Live Early: Price Revealed as $99

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After a shipping manifest revealed Valve received a large quantity of steam controllers last week, it seems TechyTalk, a YouTube reviewer, has briefly let his review go live ahead of an official announcement.

The three minute review is largely positive, putting particular emphasis on the touchpads. At the end of the review, he bemoans the price of $99, but admits this is considerably lower than some other premium controllers on the market. The whole review can be viewed here.


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeak...m_controller_review_slips_embargo_controller/
 
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If this ends up being £90-100 (including VAT), I'm probably going to wait considering I just want the touchpads over my existing controllers + using a trackball mouse.

Or even just digging out my old Steam controller.
 
Oh my, it's quite some price there. Looks good quality. I hope it is very repairable / easy to swap parts if they break.
If it is very repairable, then it could be OK for the price... but it is quite some price.

It looks good, but it needs to last forever (aka very repairable) for me to consider it.
 
They have to vastly overcharge for a controller no one was asking for in order to make up for the lost sales and development costs on their ill-fated and now cancelled $1299 Steam Machine, and the vastly overpriced VR glasses that do not even have pancake lenses like Quest 3.
 
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They have to vastly overcharge for a controller no one was asking for in order to make up for the lost sales and development costs on their ill-fated and now cancelled $1299 Steam Machine, and the vastly overpriced VR glasses that do not even have pancake lenses like Quest 3.
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Was the steam machine cancelled?
 
I was hoping for closer to $70, but it does have as many features as pro/elite controllers, if not more, so I suppose this isn't too surprising. Unfortunately not something I can justify purchasing right now either though, given how many perfectly cromulent 8bitdo controllers I own already.

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Was the steam machine cancelled?
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No, anything Chibi says about Valve can be dismissed as nonsensical hatorade.
 
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Xzi said:
I was hoping for closer to $70, but it does have as many features as pro/elite controllers, if not more, so I suppose this isn't too surprising. Unfortunately not something I can justify purchasing right now either though, given how many perfectly cromulent 8bitdo controllers I own already.


No, anything Chibi says about Valve can be dismissed as nonsensical hatorade.
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Only an AI bootlicker would hate Valve :rofl2: His message feels like an hallucination about what he WANTS reality to be jesus
 
Ultimately, I think $100 is an okay price. It's a mid-high tier controller with mid-high tier futures, but it went be ubiquitous at that price
 
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Valve is having launching anti-scalping method for their second wave of controllers. If it works, I would guess it will be used for Steam Machine and Steam Frame when they launch
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Shame they continuously refuse to sell me hardware. They're the only official distributor, so if I want one, I kinda have no choice but to pay the scalpers.
They won't ship anything to Norway, for some stupid reason. How hard it is to just offer international shipping?
 
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Shame they continuously refuse to sell me hardware. They're the only official distributor, so if I want one, I kinda have no choice but to pay the scalpers.
They won't ship anything to Norway, for some stupid reason. How hard it is to just offer international shipping?
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I quite understand the feeling. Even if it's 30$ shipping, those who just don't have local offer and who really want one would surely pay the shipping instead of the extra 150$ or more he would pay from a scalper.
 

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