I wanted them to remove both analogue sticks, they’re just taking up space, that’s what I did with my dualshock 2, most people will just use the dpad anyway. I do think having one stick is a bit awkward though.
I’m adding one to the collection. I’d like to try that out.
Same here. It peaked my interested enough to give it a buy, despite it seeming a bit pricey for what looks to be an experiment. Wish it kept the dual analog concept as well so it could deem itself as a weird ps4 alternative controller than just another fight pad.
I would say that for claw players like myself the extra analog gets in the way.
If its saturnesque and has a good build quality i am in.
For now i will use the saturn pad Gummo modded. At least i am hoping it works for PS4. Damn you feb get her faster so i can buy a ps4!!
Nintendo owns the dpad patent so it cannot be exactly a cross. Hence why we have had sooo many bad dpads over the years. We have had some good ones but few and far between.
Patent has been expired long ago, Hori has a bunch of controllers with a cross dpad
That D-pad design patent expired sometime in the 90s. Its actually older than the NES/Famicom is.
It was first used in the Game & Watch series.
Design patents like that only last for some 15 years and can’t be reupped.
Ahhh, noted.
I saw a commercial for it once. Then about a year later I saw one in a clearance sale and bought it for $5. Shittiest controller I’ve ever used in my life. And the D-Pad for the Madcatz controller looks horrible.
How hard could it possibly be to do this but use real quality parts so it doesn’t fall apart after a year or two?
I personally like the Snes dpad better than the Saturn, only thing I like better on the Saturn is the button layout. I’ve been playing a lot of GG Xrd with both controllers and Overdrives seem to be easier to pull off on a Snes pad.
I prefer the floating pads to the Snes and Sony style, my thumb gets raw doing any quarter circle motion after a while on 4-way pads. In Australia it’s so expensive getting a nice fightpad though! The cheap Logitech gamepads have done nicely for me at the moment:
The new Mad Catz one looks very nice, would be better without the joystick though.
That was the pad I used when I really got into fighters. The D-pad will break after about a year or less. That’s a guarantee. I went through about 3-4 of them in just as many years.
I tried out the fightpad at NEC. I liked the dpad. It needs a little more grip, but I’m sure they will be
Addressing that in the final build.
I’m a bit out of it, but what does the symbol in the white controller mean or at least where does it come from?
It’s from Ryu’s gloves. It’s a super-stylized version of the Kanji for “Furinkazan”.
Which ones are you guys getting? They’re all kind of ugly, I think I’ll go with the white one
Both the white and the red controller are the most appealing to my eyes.