- Fully featured 8 button arcade stick
- Turbo and Marco function buttons
- HOME button for full console control
- Full arcade realism
Product Description
Fully featured 8 button arcade stick for PS3. It has Turbo and macro function buttons, Home function button for full console control. Compatible with all fighting, action, shooting and classic games…. More >>
This stick is an inexpensive but fairly well built arcade style controller that’s almost perfect for fighting games. Turbo works as advertised. Macro works, but is not terribly useful, since the move has to be re-entered every time you turn the PS3 off. If you can pull off the move that many times, you can just pull it off in-game.
Note that since you’ll naturally be pulling the buttons towards you when you push them down, the paint at the bottom will start to flake off- my X button already has signs of wear after one day.
Depending on how far away you sit, you might also want a USB extension cord. The cord on the joystick is only about 6 feet.
Rating: 4 / 5
I purchased this stick for one main reason, and that was to play Street Fighter IV. My only major gripe is that the controller is not wireless, but for the price it’s a fair trade-off (I purchased a USB extender cord to compensate).
This controller doesn’t have all the interfaces of the standard PS3 controller (it’s missing a joystick and four directional buttons), but covers all the rest (including L3 and R3). It has more than enough buttons to play most major fighting games out there.
As a fan of the Street Fighter arcade series, having a good joystick was essential for me. I just plugged this stick into my PS3, fired up the SF4 game, and it worked perfectly.
Special moves are pretty easy to pull off with this controller, and the familiar button layout gives it a real nice arcade feel to gameplay. You can also program up to 4 macro buttons, allowing you to flawlessly pull off the most difficult of special moves at the push of a button.
Turbo buttons are included, although I’ve never used this feature.
Are there better joysticks out there? Probably. Can you find a better balance of price and performance in a stick? Probably not.
Rating: 5 / 5