{"id":609726,"date":"2026-04-27T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609726\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:27:09","slug":"valve-launches-the-steam-controller-without-the-steam-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609726\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve launches the Steam Controller without the Steam Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, Valve is releasing the Steam Controller without the Steam Machine.<\/p>\n

The Steam Controller is officially going on sale May 4th<\/a> at 1PM ET for $99 USD, $149 CAD, $149 AUD, \u00a385 in the UK and \u20ac99 in the EU. We\u2019ve 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<\/a> and Cameron Faulkner<\/a> right now. It\u2019s pretty great!<\/p>\n

What about the Steam Machine<\/a> living room console and Steam Frame<\/a> headset? Valve is simply saying stay tuned. \u201cRight now we don\u2019t have any updates on that, but we\u2019re hard at work on it, and we hope to have news soon,\u201d Valve\u2019s Pierre-Loup Griffais tells The Verge. Valve previously committed to ship the Machine and Frame this year.<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>, or rather the Steam Deck\u2019s controls shrunk down into a gamepad, ever since the Deck came out. Some Verge readers got pretty excited in 2022 when Valve\u2019s hardware team revealed<\/a> it would enjoy making that dream come true.<\/p>\n

Now, Jay writes<\/a> that the Steam Controller does almost exactly what he\u2019d hoped \u2014 he\u2019s playing Steam Deck on the TV, with a more comfortable pad, that keeps his controller profiles and muscle memory intact.<\/p>\n

The delay for Valve\u2019s other hardware does mean that our Steam Controller reviews feel slightly incomplete. We couldn\u2019t test how well the Steam Controller works with the Steam Machine\u2019s dedicated controller antenna, or how well the Controller works in virtual reality with the Steam Frame. (The controller is a visible object in VR thanks to built-in infrared LEDs that the headset cameras can track.)<\/p>\n

But we like what we see, and we got a few additional tidbits of information from Valve, too:<\/p>\n

Lastly, if you\u2019re wondering whether you\u2019ll ever be able to buy a Steam Deck<\/a> again, Griffais says Valve is \u201cworking hard on trying to address that,\u201d but it\u2019s challenging because \u201cthe world is a different place than it was last year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, Valve is releasing the Steam Controller without the Steam Machine. The Steam Controller is officially going on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[166,559,3,1300,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-609726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pc-gaming","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}