Valve Says Steam Controller Sold Out 'Faster Than We Anticipated' as Scalpers Cash In

Valve has said its precocious released Steam Controller sold retired faster than expected, arsenic scalpers proceed to currency in.

Steam Controller went connected merchantability connected May 4 priced $99, and it didn’t instrumentality agelong for Valve’s website to amusement the dreaded “out of stock” connection — and for scalpers to merchantability the controller astatine inflated prices. Some listings sold for successful excess of $200.

Now, Valve has issued an update, saying it’s moving connected getting much banal in, but didn’t accidental when.

“Steam Controller ran retired faster than we anticipated, and we hatred that not everyone who wanted 1 was capable to get it,” Valve said. “We’re moving connected getting much successful banal and volition person an update connected expected timeline soon.”

While Steam Controller is retired the door, Valve is yet to day oregon terms the Steam Machine oregon Steam Frame, which were some announced alongside Steam Controller past year. In an interrogation with IGN up of the Steam Controller merchandise day announcement, Valve programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais promised much Steam Machine quality soon.

“We don't person nonstop details astir the timeline to stock today,” Griffais said. “And we're hard astatine enactment connected trying to get them retired the door. I deliberation we are decidedly expecting to rotation retired immoderate quality soon astir that, but successful general, I deliberation things are going well.”

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