You told me your favorite controller ever – and I don't believe you

Last month I ran a poll asking you, dear TechRadar readers, what your favourite controller of all time was. I included pretty much all the first-party controllers with thumbsticks I could think of, going as far back at the Nintendo 64.

I’d expected, like any self-respecting gamer, to have see the likes of the latest Xbox Wireless Controller, DualSense Wireless Controller, or maybe the DualShock 4, to top the list. But that didn't happen.

Rather, the original Valve Steam Controller was voted as readers’ favourite controller of all time… yes really. It got 15% of the votes, putting it in first place, while second was taken by the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller with 13%; an older controller but a fantastic one for the time, and many years after it.

Third place went to the ...