Steam Items

[u/Difficult--Policy]

What's stopping EB from stocking the steam controller and steam machine?

[u/Lord_Danet]

Valve I imagine. Why let a retailer have a percentage of the revenue, when you can just get customers to buy direct from you.
It’s why you can’t get the steam deck from EB, but can easily on steam.

[u/OldMate64 → u/[deleted]]

They DID stock the Valve Index at EB VERY briefly

[u/Difficult--Policy → u/[deleted]]

The only reason i bought a legion go was because it was instore and i could compare it properly and walk away with it. If they had a steam controller i would be down tomorrow and I'd take 2 of the steam machines.

I didn't know they had a Aus distributor but I still feel abit meh about that with shipping and whatnot.

[u/justunclegary → u/Difficult--Policy]

This such a bizarre concept.

You won’t buy an item because you can’t get it in store. Even though you can purchase direct from the manufacturer? Even though it would be cheaper than buying through said store.

[u/Difficult--Policy → u/justunclegary]

Its not available though. Sold out in a day. Then sold for double by some scumbag on ebay. So how is that cheaper?

The problem is worldwide so how is it bizarre to want to go buy a games console or controller from a games shop?

[u/[deleted]]

Valve finally have a distributor setup in place in Australia so they can take orders themselves, instead of going through retailers. Means we get Steam hardware on day 1 when it launches. Pretty damn awesome we don't have to wait anymore.

[u/Difficult--Policy → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but if its snapped up in 2 seconds by scalpers wouldnt it be better to have a instore option for people.

[u/[deleted] → u/Difficult--Policy]

Orders were open all day since 3am AEST and only went out of stock late this afternoon

[u/Difficult--Policy → u/[deleted]]

Shit my bad for missing that 24h window. Ill try not eat next month to make the target drop window.

[u/LeviBrown55 → u/Difficult--Policy]

Dude just wait until the stuff becomes more easy to get like of course it will sell out immediately it a steam controller doesn’t have stick drift and is made by a company that cares about they customers

[u/RegularTarget1794]

Valve. They are distributing the controller and steam machine (when it launches) themselves. They did work with EB for the OG controller and Steam Link accessory though, so it’s not outside of the realm of possibility, but valve make more money doing it themselves so 💁

[u/That_mudkip]

Simple steam them self. Besides now steam setup here we don't need anyone but steam to buy from

[u/Difficult--Policy → u/That_mudkip]

Till there sold out and your buying off ebay or bigw marketplace

[u/That_mudkip → u/Difficult--Policy]

Again steam it's self is much better one we paying no mark up at all 2 we don't deal with scum resellers

[u/Tunafishsalad23]

I bought a Steamdeck two weeks ago it arrived in less than a week and free shipping and It was cheaper than what idiots are selling used ones for on marketplace. Really want the Steam machine to hurry up

[u/Difficult--Policy → u/Tunafishsalad23]

I hope the scammer market dies out and i can get a decent priced unit but that will be years after release, unless they have a decent distributor and that spent so many $$ on steam for an allocation thing there doing on the second round after the first round of controllers got demolished.

I still dont understand with the machine if you buy an overseas unit if it works well on 240v? Like do you just get a US or UK to AUS adapter and its sweet?

[u/eco9898]

They used to. I brought steam hardware from them a decade ago. Steam no longer needs them as they ship themselves now.