I received my Steam Controller a couple weeks ago. I just happened to check the Steam Controller page today and it let me place a second reservation. It looks like the hold on one reservation per account has been lifted.
Good, need two so I can race them.
I noticed that. Estimated ship time is 2027 though. But still pretty awesome
Mr. President, the second Steam Controller just hit the store
You are allowed to reserve another as soon as your first one ships. The limit is 1 at a time not one permanently.
I didn’t think it was permanently. Valve originally said, “for now, customers who have already purchased a Steam Controller are not yet eligible to reserve another Steam Controller” (source). We didn’t receive an update on when they would allow users to jump back in the queue for another one, but now we can!
Is that only if you’ve already received one, or can you reserve two controllers at the same time? When I go into Steam, it only gives an option to cancel my existing reservation.
I’m referring to users who have received one already. As far as I’m aware, there’s still not a way to reserve multiple controllers at the same time.
The fuck. I cant get a controller but now people can reserve a second?!
Missed out on all the Steam boxes with controllers too. 🙃
Just reserve. If you’re already in the queue, we’d be behind you!
Do normal PS5 controllers work on the Steam Machine?
EDIT: misspelled “PS5”, so had to correct it.
I’m assuming you mean PS5 controllers, and yes they should work fine. I believe you can also use the controller’s gyro and touchpad area.
One weird issue is that while the controllers work normally wirelessly, I think it has to be plugged in to use some features like the adaptive triggers, for games that specifically support it.
This is because certain features (like haptic feedback and adaptive triggers) work by exposing them as an audio device to the host system, which isn’t functional over Bluetooth (the reason I heard is that Bluetooth just doesn’t have the latency for that, if there are third party projects that have found a way around that then great!).
All normal controller features work fine, you just can’t use some of the PS5 exclusive stuff. I don’t know of any games, including PS5 games ported to PC, that absolutely require the wired gestures.
Note this applies to all PCs, regardless of OS.
Oops, yeah. I meant the PS5 controller
I don’t have a PS5 controller but so far I’ve tested both the Steam Controller and an Xbox controller so far. Funnily enough, the Steam Controller was giving me issues during setup and I had to use my Xbox controller instead until I managed to connect my Steam Machine to WiFi and updated everything.
I can test out a PS4 controller tonight if you’d like (I don’t own a PS5 controller, the PS4 is the only PlayStation I’ve owned).
Yeah, if you want, would be cool to see if it works. Though, if the Xbox controller works then the PS4 should work too.
I’m not planning to purchase the Steam Machine just yet though, going to wait a few months to see how things go
