MadCatz Arcade Stick: Discuss

[lilboo]

I saw this on EB/GS website for $60. I was pretty much turned off by it.

I did see this in Best Buy yesterday, for $50 and I have a $5 Xbox360 accessory coupon. So now I'm kinda intrigued.

Up close, it looks really awesome. Seems like it would play and feel really well. But does anyone else have this? I guess with coupon ($45+tax) isn't too bad..and it does come with 3 XBLA games (I *think* they are AstroPop, Forgger, and Time Pilot).

It looks very much of a first person accessory, but MadCatz has always reminded me of something cheap and shitty. So I hope someone has it, or has played with one and can provide some feedback.

Basically, I would hate to go drop $45 on this at BestBuy and in 2-3 months Microsoft releases THEIR version of the arcade stick...AND it's wireless :(

[BustaUppa]

The only thing I found remotely interesting about this was the "spinner" control, but from what I've heard it is basically just a dial with kind of a high resistance to it. This controller really doesn't have much to offer... you may as well save your money IMO.

[lilboo]

Thanks.
Damn, I'm gone all day at work I come home and there's one response lol

Anyone have any type of feedback?

Can anyone suggest a FAIR price for it? So I can wait for it to be on sale or clearance or something. Now a fair price and a CAG price are different ;)

[KingDox]

There are 2 outher threads about it. I made one and most people said it blows. Save your money till it gets discounted to 20 bucks.

If you do a search you should be able to find those threads.

[lilboo]

Ok well the BF took me shopping at Best Buy for Valentine's Day after dinner..and I threw this in the cart lol

If anyone wants, sometime this weekend I can make a review on this thing if anyone cares to read much about it.

Long story short: Surprisingly well, but the $50 price tag is very "meh"

[doodle777_98]

i like it. comes with 3 online games would cast ya $20. all buttons work for all games but it is missing the left stick button(you know when you press it in). it also has auto fire, with different speeds.

[BustaUppa]

I am assuming that the actual "stick" portion of this controller acts as the left analog? See that's another knock against this controller in my opinion... most of the old-school games it was designed for would work best with an 8-way (or even 4-way, in some cases) digital input.