r/SteamController • u/Paragonias • Aug 10 '26
Meta Family reunion
Older brother, cousin and younger brother lol
Hope you have a great day and happy gaming!
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u/Archanj0 Steam Controller (Windows) Aug 10 '26
Put the Horipad on the right and you get that three-headed dragon meme.
It was the very first controller I returned for simply not liking.
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u/impromptuswordsman Aug 10 '26
What is the middle one?
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u/Paragonias Aug 10 '26
A collab controller between Valve and HORI. Just search for Horipad Steam and you'll find it.
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u/MoldyPond Aug 10 '26
And announced/released right after the first set of “new Steam Controller” rumours started circulating back in 2024, so there was a legitimate reason/hype for it to exist.
Then everyone read the specs/caveats and realized there isn’t much of a point to it existing lol
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u/CubePlayer1114 Aug 10 '26
Horipad, it was a licensed controller that Valve themselves never produced
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u/impromptuswordsman Aug 10 '26
Is it any good?
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u/MailboxJunkie Aug 11 '26
Despite having as many buttons as the DS Edge, and capacative thumbsticks, no.
It's actually one of the worst controllers I own. It's latency is horrific when wireless, the quality of the build is lacking for a $70 controller, and it is just a massive let down all around.1
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u/Tashawn Aug 11 '26
Was the middle one adopted?
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u/phexitol Aug 11 '26
You ever heard of Ramsay Bolton?
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u/glass_needles Aug 11 '26
I got mine in a fun colour. If I had the choice I’d of gotten both the official Valve ones in eye searing variants.
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u/Dudi4PoLFr Steam Controller Day 1 Order Aug 10 '26
That Hori Shit pad better not even touch any of the SC. It's the worst pad that I had in 20+ years.
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u/Wolfharth Aug 11 '26
I will defend the HORIPAD forever. It's light, decently well built, comfortable, and pretty cheap. It's got good gyro, and capacitive touch sticks. My only complaint is the triggers, which... yeah, they aren't great, but they do the job.
I think maybe the QC isn't the greatest, potentially? The one I received is great, though. It'll definitely still get used as a travel controller because it's light and cheap, losing it or breaking it wouldn't be heartbreaking, though my day-to-day use at home has been supplanted by the new Steam Controller.
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u/Deli5150 Steam Controller (2026) Aug 11 '26
Tbh the horipad is a decent controller pretty comfortable to hold but I will admit the bill quality is horrible cheap plastic, really light, and back when I ordered mine it arrived with a little stick drift.
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u/kittymoo67 Aug 11 '26
father, weird step daughter that came from a druggie cousin but was ether adopt or let her go on the streets, son. :)
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u/Dedewastaken1 Steam Controller (2015) Aug 12 '26
The middle one is that weird uncle nobody talks about
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u/351C_4V Aug 10 '26
That middle one is like a distant cousin... a veeeeeery distant cousin lol I didn't mind it but the extra bind buttons made no sense. The only real benefit was how light it was and the capacitive joysticks.