The official Street Fighter IV FightStick controller for the Sony PS3 was designed for fighting game fans to recreate the quality, gameplay and precision found in arcades. Using an arcade-style joystick and 30mm quick connect buttons along with realistic spacing and an eight-button layout, the Street Fighter IV FightStick brings the arcade experience right into your home. With separate turbo settings for each button and great ergonomics, prepare yourself for hours of competition, no quarters necessary.
- Japanese-style joystick & buttons
- 8-button layout with additional multi-speed Turbo functionality
- Genuine arcade layout
- Wired Cable – 4 M (13 FT) length
- Connect to console via USB
List Price: $ 79.99
Price: $ 144.49
A decent fightstick with some quirks,
The stick used for this is trash. The first day I received this, the stick was already faulty because the stick was not able to register a few motions. It turns out the stick is actually a Sanwa knockoff and it shows by its poor quality. I was forced to replace the stick with a Sanwa one, which was something I was already planning on doing. The buttons on the fightstick is mostly good, except after using it for over a month, my roundhouse button has started to act up. It will mostly register the action, but once in a while, it will not. Like the stick, I will be replacing the buttons with Sanwa parts really soon.
Other than those two problems, the fightstick itself is fine. It is small and portable and it feels nice using it. The layout of the buttons is great and the spacing between the stick and buttons is great too. The fightstick is also very easy to mod so you can easily swap out the stick, buttons or the artwork without any problem.
My recommendation is if you have the money for the TE fightstick, then go for it. If not, then this is a decent alternative with a few problems.
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|Works like I expected it to,
I’ve been playing with the SE fightstick for about a month now, with at least one hour of use every day. Thankfully I didn’t have the loose washer issue (first thing I did was listen very carefully as I moved the stick around — I thought it would be okay if I didn’t hear any scraping/scratching noises, as I assumed the later units should not have such a big problem).
This is my first stick, so I’m no expert on them, and as such I think this is a great stick. Buttons are sensitive, the stick works well (once you get used to the square gate), and it’s a nice weight so that I can set it on a chair or on my lap unsecured and it won’t move too much, or at all.
After a month of use I’m beginning to suspect that some of the buttons will begin sticking, but I was aware this might happen as they’re not Sanwa parts. If it becomes big enough of a problem I’ll order replacement parts and swap buttons, which seems easy enough to do. After I do that I don’t think I’ll have any further reasons to complain.
All in all, this is a bit more expensive than I would expect for an arcade stick (by $15-$20) that doesn’t have premium arcade parts and seems designed as a starting point for modification. All indications point to a product out-of-the-box that has a limited life before it starts having issues (though online discussion is going to be biased towards those who have problems). With that being said, I’m not unhappy with my purchase at all, and neither are the dopamine receptors in my brain every time I get my hands on this thing. (Now if only I could find some opponents online with whom I match up well…)
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