Steam Controller Discontinued, $5 Sale is to Sell Existing Stock - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 January 2020 / 3,473 Views
Valve has discounted the price of its Steam Controller by a massive 90 percent. The controller is available for just $5, plus shipping. It is normally priced at $49.99.
The Verge is now reporting the firesale on the Steam Controller is to sell the existing stock as Valve has discontinued the controller.
The official Steam page for the Steam Controller is now showing it is "Out of Stock."
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Bought it. Always wanted to try it. Now I can in 4-6 business days!
Aaand it's gone!
Yeesh. I forgot about this thing. It looks like a controller that was mangled in a teleportation accident.
Pretty sure Valve forgot about it within a couple months after it came out. Like the Steam Machines.
You know they are bringing out another one.
I hope so. The old version was a bit weird, but having a "standard" controller for use with PC games is probably an important thing... 95% of the experience of playing games is the controller: after the game starts to load there is not really any other difference between systems.
I wouldn't be caught dead with that in my collection xD
i got on 5 bucks plus 7 shipping why not
I still use mine to play PC games on my TV and I quite like it...
Considering it's aimed at the PC audience, unless you don't have a mechanical keyboard, the only real application it has, is driving games. Every other game is better to play with mouse and keyboard, competitive, anyway, should you train yourself to use the keyboard. I know I personally still use a controller for fighting games, and arkham knight, because running up buildings and using the grappling gun and everything else was just too much for me to get used to when I could pick up a controller, and know what every button is supposed to do and not worry about pressing the wrong key.
I wish I'd found out about this controller sale sooner, I would have gotten one. It's different, and certainly worth 5 dollars.
My issue with it was that the directional pad, which must be accurate, for fighting games, obviously wouldn't be with the steam controller. If you need to press left, it has to be left. Not down/left, or up/left, it must be left
This one was a weird experiment. In all honesty, I did not like it, but hey, at least they tried something new. At this price it's a steal, but I have plenty of hardware accessories as is, and I am not a collector :-(
bought, don't even know if i'll ever use it but for $13 (cause of shipping) why not
Good thing I got mine ages ago.
You will never want to go back to thumbsticks.
My old roommate had one. It was like playing on a trackpad. For games that played on a mouse and keyboard like Civ it was terrible because it was too much like a controller. For games that played on a controller it was terrible because it was too much like a mouse, only worse. Because trackpad.
It's not for everyone.
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