Buying shit in 2026 fucking sucks. Out in 30 minutes? I am so pissed.

It went on sale at 1:00 in my time zone. I had it in my cart at 1:00 and was trying to checkout before it ever hit 1:01, but all I got were errors when trying to continue to payment. Then out of stock. What a bunch of fucking bullshit. Like seriously, what the fuck else was I even supposed to do?

I’ll wait for the OLED version to drop to buy one /s

For real tho clear smoke plastic body with the orange accents would be pretty sick.

Shoot I must've barely got it then. Personally I was selfishly DOS-attacking the continue button until the payment finally went through. I was clicking from about :05 to :25, probably several hundred times.

I knew this was going to happen so I went in early.

Payment Method: Visa ending with XX
Purchased: May 4 @ 7:58pm

hoping to get a lot of use from the trackpads

I got one. Had to click "Continue" about 100 times to checkout. Took over 30 minutes. And I had the required funds in my Steam Wallet.

got one into my cart but cant pay because its back out of stock

edit: fuck you of the year:

I’ve had it on my wishlist for a long time. Did not get an email saying they’re even available.

Impatiently waiting because I was sick and asleep 🙋 I managed to get it into my cart and see the error message about a hundred times before they went out of stock

My Xbox controller is unusable over Bluetooth and the ps5 controller’s triangle button doesn’t work so I was really looking forward to it

Am I the only one who doesn't really want one? I mean, I'd try it, sure, but like.. eh?

And I do like some controller games, I have a handful of 8bitdo controllers.

I just snag one.

Man I had a hard time battling with myself. On one side, I really want one and was waiting years for this even before the Steam Deck was on the market. On the other hand, my limit was 90 Euros (taxes included). And worse than that, it only functions with Steam. Yes, duh you say, its in the name, the Steam Controller. My hope was I could use it as a replacement for my controller acting as a regular gamepad without all the bells and whistles, playing emulators without Steam too. Looks like my that is not gonna happen anytime soon.

Got mine 3 minutes before the hour. I was smashing that F5 button like I was Brock Lesnar in a squash match. My friend also got one same time, although he had the error screen a few times before it went through.

Good luck on the next releases of the machine and frame, gents 🫡

Well, anyone who managed to get one, lemme know how the d-pad is on it. Is it better than the OG Steam Deck D-pad or the OLED D-pad? I changed my OLED d-pad to mechanical buttons, and it's felt much more accurate for 2d platformers and fighters.

I'm hoping they do like the Steam Deck and let us get a spot in line. It took a few months for me to be able to buy a Deck.

Damn, I've seen a few of threads about this and it's making me feel a little guilty that I managed to order one without really trying hard for it.

I got one, took about 11 min of trying before the card would process. During that time I would try 2x every 30 sec to 1 min.

Store was seemingly working fine, just payment processors being overloaded as far as I could tell.

Whelp, hoping to get in on the next batch. Wondering how long it will take to come back in stock.

For those that did snag one, did they share what the shipping timeline looks like?

I didn't even get an email to tell me it was available, they were gone that quick.

I'll pick one up in the next batch.