{"id":1132,"date":"2026-04-28T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:27:53","slug":"were-ready-for-it-valves-steam-controller-arrives-may-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/were-ready-for-it-valves-steam-controller-arrives-may-4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re Ready For It.\u201d Valve\u2019s Steam Controller Arrives May 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Valve\u2019s Steam Controller will be available for purchase May 4th and will cost $99 USD. They explain it will be released before the Steam Machine because: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have RAM.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No need to speculate anymore. Valve <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hardware\/steamcontroller\">confirmed<\/a> its Steam Controller will be available for purchase on May the 4th and will cost $99 USD \/ \u20ac99. It will only ship to the US, Canada, Europe, the UK, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and Australia. Out of the three new devices announced last year by Valve, it is the first to release, and for good reason. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/steam-controller-steam-machine-release-schedule-why\/?taid=69ef9ad24d7048000163215e\">interview<\/a> with Polygon, Valve hardware engineer Steve Cardinali explains: <em>\u201cThis doesn&rsquo;t have RAM in it, and it&rsquo;s not as complicated to start getting out the door for us.\u201d <\/em>Cardinali continues: <em>\u201cWe&rsquo;re ready for it. We wanted to build up quantity so that we could try to address everybody who wants one at launch, but it&rsquo;s possible that the demand for it far exceeds our expectations.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excited to announce our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Steam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Steam<\/a> Controller arrives on Steam May 4th at 10 a.m. PT.<br><br>Learn more and wishlist here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X8cETMRY3N\">https:\/\/t.co\/X8cETMRY3N<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Valve (@valvesoftware) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valvesoftware\/status\/2048812119630712919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Valve announcing the release date of its Steam Controller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He also explains releasing the Steam Controller ahead still aligns with their original strategy, as they were never supposed to share the exact same release date: <em>\u201cWe had always thought, obviously we want them to work together well, especially the Steam Machine and the Steam Controller, they&rsquo;re in a lot of ways a pair made in heaven, but we saw no need to ship the Controller at the same time as the Machine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What they really wanted to avoid was releasing the Steam Machine before the Steam Controller: \u201c<em>The really only hard deadline is we didn&rsquo;t want to ship the Steam Machine before the Steam Controller. We want to have that out for the Steam Machine\u2026 It wasn&rsquo;t really ever the plan to ship them together unless it landed nicely that way. So there&rsquo;s no point in holding it back while we work through the other stuff.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valve <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/valvesoftware\/status\/1988673021197140191?s=20\">unveiled<\/a> their new Steam Hardware line in November of last year. The Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame were all supposed to be available in early 2026, but the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/group\/45479024\/view\/625565405086220583\">price hikes<\/a> in PC components threw a wrench in Gaben\u2019s plans. With an official release date confirmed for the controller, only the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame remain indefinitely delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve\u2019s Steam Controller will be available for purchase May 4th and will cost $99 USD. They explain it will be released before the Steam Machine&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/were-ready-for-it-valves-steam-controller-arrives-may-4\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re Ready For It.\u201d Valve\u2019s Steam Controller Arrives May 4<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image_2026-04-28_131631225-150x150.png",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image_2026-04-28_131631225.png",2559,1439,false]},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/category\/blog\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frameperfect.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}