The Steam Hardware Weekend sale is now live and it seems Valve now sell accessories for the Steam Controller.
All items are now 30% off, but this does not include Steam Machines. Although for me in the UK it seems the Alienware Steam Machine is currently on a deal too.
I'm not entirely sure how long they have been doing this, as I haven't seen it announced anywhere. You can now buy a Wireless Receiver, a Carrying Case, an Aperture skin for the controller and a special Battery Door that has space to store the Dongle.
They can be purchased as a bundle, or separately. I was wondering how long it would be before Valve sold the Wireless Receiver by itself considering I've seen a number of people break theirs.
You can grab the accessories, a Steam Controller or a Steam Link for much cheaper than usual. Now's your chance to bag some cool kit!
See the sale here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
All items are now 30% off, but this does not include Steam Machines. Although for me in the UK it seems the Alienware Steam Machine is currently on a deal too.
I'm not entirely sure how long they have been doing this, as I haven't seen it announced anywhere. You can now buy a Wireless Receiver, a Carrying Case, an Aperture skin for the controller and a special Battery Door that has space to store the Dongle.
They can be purchased as a bundle, or separately. I was wondering how long it would be before Valve sold the Wireless Receiver by itself considering I've seen a number of people break theirs.
You can grab the accessories, a Steam Controller or a Steam Link for much cheaper than usual. Now's your chance to bag some cool kit!
See the sale here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I was wondering why there was no dongle storage. 14€ for a piece of plastic? That's why.
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Quoting: JOndra91I was wondering why there was no dongle storage. 14€ for a piece of plastic? That's why.Or, if we're a bit less cynical, maybe they just didn't think it was needed. Also, this is the first version of the controller ever; there's bound to be a design flaw or two.
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Mountain Man Sep 30, 2016
Quoting: tuubiConsidering this is version 1.0, it's amazing just how much they got right!Quoting: JOndra91I was wondering why there was no dongle storage. 14€ for a piece of plastic? That's why.Or, if we're a bit less cynical, maybe they just didn't think it was needed. Also, this is the first version of the controller ever; there's bound to be a design flaw or two.
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ElectricPrism Sep 30, 2016
QuoteThe Steam Hardware Weekend sale is now live and it seems Valve now sells accessories for the Steam Controller.
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ElectricPrism Sep 30, 2016
I had no idea any of this existed until now. I don't know if I like the idea of stickered controllers, if they were a more permanent mod I would happily buy them.
However I have to admit that in CS:GO my Xbox 360 controller currently feels the best, maybe because joystick pads don't extend to 100% of the circles edge by default -- dafuq?
I'm still waiting for gamers and manufacturers to mod the controllers and sell them, can't wait.
(Im seriously tempted to buy 4 PS3 or PS4 controllers as they're bluetooth and have a good layout.)
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However I have to admit that in CS:GO my Xbox 360 controller currently feels the best, maybe because joystick pads don't extend to 100% of the circles edge by default -- dafuq?
I'm still waiting for gamers and manufacturers to mod the controllers and sell them, can't wait.
(Im seriously tempted to buy 4 PS3 or PS4 controllers as they're bluetooth and have a good layout.)
Last edited by ElectricPrism on 30 September 2016 at 1:59 am UTC
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Quoting: ElectricPrismI think it's more common in the UK to consider collective entities as a plural subject rather than a singular one. e.g. "The team are here; Valve are making progress" (UK) vs "The team is here; Valve is making progress" (US).QuoteThe Steam Hardware Weekend sale is now live and it seems Valve now sells accessories for the Steam Controller.
Typo fix, feel free to delete this comment.
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boltronics Sep 30, 2016
No Steam Controllers, Steam Machines or Steam Link hardware available to buy via Steam in Australia yet. The hardware has been out elsewhere for so long, that I doubt it'll ever be available outside of a select few countries.
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My local GAME store has been selling them and did a bundle which was reasonably well priced and actually cheaper than getting direct from Valve once you took postage into account. They seemed to sell well too as my attempts to buy there kept being foiled by either the controller or link being out of stock and the staff confirmed that the devices kept selling out.
I popped in the other day though and they have bumped the prices up to £100 per item! You can buy a whole console for not much more than that. If you want to guarantee that you kill demand for something, there's nothing like jacking the price up to an insane value...
I popped in the other day though and they have bumped the prices up to £100 per item! You can buy a whole console for not much more than that. If you want to guarantee that you kill demand for something, there's nothing like jacking the price up to an insane value...
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Comandante Ñoñardo Sep 30, 2016
Quoting: Beamboom... while we in Norway still only get the "coming soon" message on the controller page. :(
Here in Argentina too :( ... If We want to get the Steam controller, we must use Mercadolibre... Is what I did...
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1mHfoksd1Z Sep 30, 2016
The skin is ok but not very good. The green circle around the Steam button is off-centered and the Aperture Laboratories logo is too close to the roundy-touchy left thing (idk what it's called) that replaces the DPad.
Also the battery door seems to be the standard one... is there an alternative for the new one that includes the dongle as well?
For me, the most interesting accessory is the new battery door. It's so annoying having to open and close the box (I kept the original one) every time I want to play wirelessly... Lately I became lazy and just left the receiver connected to my PC (I don't like that).
The replacement receiver is ok as well, for people who lost theirs. And the carrying case is very good as well, I'd rather keep that and get rid of the original box, if it has special pockets for the data cable and the wireless receiver extender (I don't want them loose in there and potentially scratch my SC)
I think Valve could do better than that... but it isn't bad also... I really want to see more skins available... that would be really cool. I just hope the product quality is good.
The SC's quality for me was good so far, except for a few small marks on the "DPad" thing, they are barely visible but I know they are there and it's annoying. It may be OCD, or it may not, but I really want my SC to be perfect, since it's very precious for me (my first real controller, bought from my very first own money -first salary-, and I also love the way it works and feels)
Also the battery door seems to be the standard one... is there an alternative for the new one that includes the dongle as well?
For me, the most interesting accessory is the new battery door. It's so annoying having to open and close the box (I kept the original one) every time I want to play wirelessly... Lately I became lazy and just left the receiver connected to my PC (I don't like that).
The replacement receiver is ok as well, for people who lost theirs. And the carrying case is very good as well, I'd rather keep that and get rid of the original box, if it has special pockets for the data cable and the wireless receiver extender (I don't want them loose in there and potentially scratch my SC)
I think Valve could do better than that... but it isn't bad also... I really want to see more skins available... that would be really cool. I just hope the product quality is good.
The SC's quality for me was good so far, except for a few small marks on the "DPad" thing, they are barely visible but I know they are there and it's annoying. It may be OCD, or it may not, but I really want my SC to be perfect, since it's very precious for me (my first real controller, bought from my very first own money -first salary-, and I also love the way it works and feels)
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