Why not just take all the orders now and increase the estimated shipping date? Cut scalpers off at the knees by eliminating FOMO.

I love my original steam controller. I want one of the new ones for when my original eventually breaks. I don’t need it now though. So I would be happy to wait, if I knew they weren’t going to abandon it like the old controller.

WW2 didn’t start overnight. There was a series of military actions that went unchallenged. That only made the belligerents bolder.