Valve will launch the new Steam Controller on May 4 for $99.00, and hardware engineer Steve Cardinali says the gamepad is coming before its console-like partner, the Steam Machine, because it doesn’t have to contend with the ongoing RAM crisis or similar production hurdles.
Speaking with Polygon, Cardinali notes that the Steam Controller “doesn’t have RAM in it, and it’s not as complicated to start getting out the door for us.” Steam Machine, meanwhile, had to go back to the drawing board earlier this year as Valve works to navigate a challenging environment for manufacturing components.
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The Steam Controller, at least, sounds ready. I mean, Cardinali even says so. “We’re ready for it,” he continues. “We wanted to build up quantity so that we could try to address everybody who wants one at launch, but it’s possible that the demand for it far exceeds our expectations.” Indeed, Valve seems to have a boatload of Steam controllers on hand – good thing, too, because there won’t be any pre-orders ahead of May 4.
“The really only hard deadline is we didn’t want to ship the Steam Machine before the Steam Controller,” Cardinali says. “We want to have that out for the Steam Machine… It wasn’t really ever the plan to ship them together unless it landed nicely that way. So there’s no point in holding it back while we work through the other stuff.”
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