Valve launches the Steam Controller without the Steam Machine

Last November, Valve introduced the world to its new vision of living room gaming : the Steam Machine and Steam Controller. Then, RAMageddon . Memory shortages forced Valve to delay all its hardware and reset expectations . Now, Valve is releasing the Steam Controller without the Steam Machine. The Steam Controller is officially going on sale May 4th at 1PM ET for $99 USD, $149 CAD, $149 AUD, £85 in the UK and €99 in the EU. We’ve already spent two weeks with the pad paired to our Steam Decks and gaming desktops, and you can read reviews from my colleagues Jay Peters and Cameron Faulkner right now. It’s pretty great! What about the Steam Machine living room console and Steam Frame headset? Valve is simply saying stay tuned. “Right now we don’t have any updates on that, but we’re hard at work on it, and we hope to have news soon,” Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais tells The Verge. Valve previously committed to ship the Machine and Frame this year. You do not need a Steam Machine to use the new Steam Controller. It should work with any computer that runs Steam, and as a generic controller for phones too. People have been asking for a successor to the cult classic original Steam Controller , or rather the Steam Deck’s controls shrunk down into a gamepad, ever since the Deck came out. Some Verge readers got pretty excited in 2022 when Valve’s hardware team revealed it would enjoy making that dream come true. …