Valve forming an orderly queue for the Steam Controller makes it clear we need the same for the Steam Machine, Frame, and perhaps a lot more in-demand tech too

The Steam Controller is out—kinda. If you were lucky enough to buy one in the days, hours, or minutes after they were made available, and before Steam crashed, then you're laughing all the way to the sofa. If not, you've likely been staring blankly at the store page for whenever a restock takes place or paying a reseller mad money for one on eBay.

Those resellers have been seen charging two/three times the price of a Steam Controller for the privilege of not waiting around for one. That's wild. Not only because you could spend less on a much more premium pad that doesn't have Valve's logo on it (and admittedly fewer specialised inputs), Valve has also shown it has a better solution for this sorta thing—one that it's ready to roll out again here. A reservation system.

Valve is rolling out a reser...