Valve’s grim experience with the launch of the Steam Controller , where scalpers scooped up so many of the devices that they sold out in under 30 minutes, led it to announce an improved system of upcoming restocks. But that change also inadvertently alerted canny code-scourers to details about the sale of Valve’s unreleased Steam Machine. Via WCCF Tech , they discovered that the new SteamOS mini-PC will seemingly come in four different SKUs at launch, with some extra protections in place to try to prevent scalpers from ruining pre-orders for everyone. Following May 4’s Steam Controller launch, Valve announced it was going to handle things very differently when the device was restocked, requiring a registration queue to access orders, purchase limits of one, and a Steam account that’s in “good standing” and has made purchases before April 27, 2026. This is all in an effort to limit the abilities of scalpers looking to flip the highly sought-after controller.…