Steam Controller Sells Out in Minutes, Cue the Overpriced eBay Listings

While we patiently wait for Valve's modern Steam Machine to make its highly-anticipated debut, its retooled Steam Controller hit the ground running and quickly sprinted to sold out status. Valve will inevitably replenish its inventory, but for the timing being, procuring the $99 controller means paying scalper pricing on eBay, which we recommend against doing.

The Steam Controller is one of the three first-party hardware devices that Valve unveiled last November, the other two being the aforementioned Steam Machine and a new Steam Frame headest. It's also the first of the three to make its retail debut. Both of other two hardware devices are still on track to release this year, though the lingering memory crisis has put exact launch timing (and pricing) in limbo.

Meanwhile, scalpers are predictably doing their thing on eBay, where the Steam Controller is fetching more than twice the retail value. Sorting by ...