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I'm starting to regret not getting one.
I want one but I will just buy other controllers still until valve does what's necessary
I mean, they aren't going to stop making them if there are people buying them. I'm sure that, at some point, there will be enough manufactured to catch up with demand.
2026 has been a pretty exasperating year to try to get ahold of a lot of pieces of hardware, I have to say.
I'm wondering if
assuming Valve still is trying to release the Steam Machine this year, which according to the last news I've seen, they're still saying that they're going to do
this is gonna dick up their Steam Machine sales. I mean, the Steam Controller is a nice-to-have on a regular PC, but for people with a Steam Machine in the living room, they probably are going to want it even more
like, there it's a lot more important to have the touchpads to replace a mouse, remote power-on capability, etc.
I have been assuming they had stock set aside for some kind of Machine + Controller bundle.
Could be
I haven't seen news along those lines and the Steam Machine description on their website doesn't presently say anything about coming with a Steam Controller
but I suppose that it's not unreasonable. But it's also worth remembering that they're probably aiming for the console market with the Steam Machine, and a lot of people use consoles for local multiplayer games and are probably going to want more than one controller for that.
Now, local multiplayer is less common among PC games than console games. But, especially with console ports, it's definitely out there.
https://store.steampowered.com/search?tags=7368&supportedlang=english&ndl=1
That says that there are 7,933 games currently on the Steam store that are tagged as Local Multiplayer.
That is what I’ve been holding out for, but what the heck is that bundle going to cost? Seems like the price will be not worth it if you already have PC and consoles.
Probably quite a lot lol. But was the Steam Machine going to make senss for pre-existing PC owners at the OG price either? Ever since their announcement I've been convinced that it's targeted towards newbies getting into the scene as a good enough "just buy this one" kinda deal. Or maybe as a TV box for people with a good desktop already.
I was assuming $1000 CAD originally for the Machine, I'm gonna throw out a guess for funsies here of $1600 CAD now. So a bundle might be 1700. Total conjecture but I want it in writing if I'm accurate lol.
It was definitely going to replace my Xbox Series X as my TV box. M$ has shit the bed for the last time and I’m not interested in giving that ecosystem any more of my money.
If the Steam machine really is crazy expensive I’ll likely hold onto my X for years to come and eventually switch to an Apple TV or something.
I just reserved one. It will likely become a Xmas or birthday present.
$300 on ebay for completed listings like crazy. Why is anyone keeping these things vs taking $300 or even $200?
I was thinking about getting one, but then I read more about it and realised you can't really use it without the Steam client. Kind of put me off since I have a large part of my library on GOG. Maybe this won't be a problem in the future though.
Can't you add non-Steam games to Steam?
Yep! You absolutely can.
Not all work properly.
Pretty much any game with a launcher or a splash screen won’t work right.
That's not entirely accurate at all. I've yet to have a single title not work even if launched outside of steam (but added as a game within steam).
I ran into a whole list of games I wanted to play that don't work right when I tried last.
Off the top of my head I know Forza Horizon 5 from the microsoft store doesn't work. Being from the MS store has nothing to do with it, it's the splash screen. The controller works great for the 5 seconds it's up. But when the game actually opens then steam input decides to stop working, even though steam knows the game is still open. Valve could easily fix this by just applying steam input forever until the program quits. But they don't. So if I want too play that game I need to use a 3rd party steam input wrapper just to make the damn controller act as a controller.
Gamepass baby. The only ones I can't get working. Have to use third party tool to convert steam input to xinput device.
I however don't bother since I also own an Xbox Elite 2 controller with a wireless adapter that works natively in any gamepass title.
Luckily, GOG games don't have those extra DRM launchers
There have been a number of posts on Lemmy about how to get it to work with non-Steam games, particularly if you also have Steam installed. This may be easier on Linux than on Windows.
Yeah why people just assume something like this will never happen? There will surely be more.
It does feel like a slap in the face that they didn't give it general Linux compatibility but Im sure it's already being worked on by someone.