[quote name='SDC']Aren't square-gates the norm for Japanese sticks anyway? It seems to me it isn't that they are bad, it is that people are used to American-style sticks.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Japanese sticks usually use square gates; they aren't bad, they're just different and people don't seem to want to adjust. Hori should realize this and start releasing arcade sticks with bat tops and octagonal gates for North America, maybe this way they would actually sell instead of sitting on a shelf for months and going on clearance.