Valve is about to order a Steam Controller that some won’t ship until 2027

Valve has good and bad news about Steam Controllers. The good news: if you reserve a Steam Controller, the company will show you one of three options for pre-ordering your gamepad: by September 2026, by December 2026, or sometime in 2027. The bad news: every reservation made today “shows a 2027 shipping date,” The valve says.

“We have no plans to stop making the Steam Controller,” according to Valve. “But we’re looking at what’s going on now compared to how much we know we can make at the end of the year, we want to manage our expectations as much as possible in terms of when people can expect to receive their order.”

Valve is very good The new Steam Controller went on sale at the beginning of May, and the first rush caused some people to experience frustrating problems when trying to look past the controller at the end. A few days later, the company announced that it would be to establish a reservation line for interested buyers to get on the waiting list. If you are on the waiting list, once you are notified that the Steam Controller is ready for purchase, you have 72 hours to place an order.

“When we launched the Steam Controller last month, we quickly realized that our demand exceeded our expectations,” says Valve. “The change in the reservation queue has (hopefully) reduced the headache for the customer, and for us it has also helped us as we prepare and try to get as many out as possible as quickly as possible.”

All three of Valve’s major sales have been delayed from early 2026 launches because of the problem of the regionValve has yet to announce when the Steam Machine PC or Steam Frame VR headset will go on sale. However, just yesterday, Valve it was officially established Its major update is SteamOS 3.8 powered by Steam Machine. It has also been importing more equipment into the US as of late.