If you've been putting off pre-ordering Valve's upcoming Steam Link or Steam Controller hardware since the devices first went on pre-sale earlier this month , we have some bad news. Valve has announced that it has sold out of units for the initial "get it early" offer (with its expected delivery on October 16). Any orders placed from now on will instead be delivered weeks later on November 10.

You may have also missed your chance to get early delivery of the first commercial "Steam Machines" pre-loaded with SteamOS. Any orders for the Alienware Steam Machines placed through GameStop since last Thursday will now be shipped November 10 rather than October 16. Syber now lists a ship date "on or after 10/15/2015" for its first wave of Steam Machines.

Valve hasn't responded to a request regarding just how many of either unit has sold so far, so it's hard to tell whether it's low supply, healthy demand, or some combination that led to the "early bird" sell out just a few weeks after its announcement. We also have no idea what kind of supplies Valve has planned for the wider availability in November. In any case, if you want to be among the first to see how Valve handles itself outside of the software realm, we wouldn't recommend putting it off any longer.