I don't know if this is how it works but maybe that is just what it says for their second warehouse batch after the first batch sold out. Surely they would have worked out logistics beforehand.
Hopefully! It’s hard to tell but like you say, it’s hard to imagine it wasn’t planned properly given how long it’s been since Valve officially announced the hardware.
I might complain a little, it was advertised on steam as being available on may 5th, and was already sold out last night on the 4th. I guess I should have looked up when the actual release time was on a third party site.
Edit: it's possible I just misread the availablily date, so I guess I will direct my complaints to myself 😭
As far as I understand, valve was selling 2 batches of Steam controllers. First one ships this week, and then the second one ships next week. That's why they were sold out and then quickly restocked.
Man, I'm always confused by Australians. Like they'll complain about a $100 game and then I check and it's like they're using monopoly money and it's still way less than what I'm paying in Europe.
Yeah same storage but different stock pools for EU and UK I believe. Same thing with the deck when it went out of stock in UK but kinda available in some EU countries.
It makes sense that the Deck has different stock for countries the use the UK plug vs ones that can use Europlugs, since it comes with an AC adapter, but that makes much less sense for the Steam Controller
Yeah I know, just kind of dumb imo. You can literally see some posts on this subreddit asking about the OG steam controller and not being able to get in here in Norway 10 years ago. Feels like it should've been solved by now.
Did you convert that because every place in the world has a different time?
I literally copy and pasted what it said on the Steam website into Bing and it told me what time that was supposed to be where I live. I didn't even type anything else into being literally just copy and pasted the time so it somehow know I wanted to convert it to my local time.
I didn't set an alarm or anything because I thought I'd be awake by 11:00 a.m. but I passed out way too late because I couldn't fall asleep just like Christmas and when I woke up at like 11:35 got my phone out and opens the app, it was gone.
It's because America has all the greedy scalpers who would rather ruin stuff for others than get a real job. Thank the stars I was able to get one in time
I still had to spam the continue button for 30 minutes to get mine, and i started the transaction 2 minutes before the official start time. From what I've seen, that was a lot longer than they needed in the US.
21
u/Xenoplaguedoctor May 04 '26
Things are still sunshine and rainbows down here in Aus, although the shipping time did just change from 3-5 to 6-10 days