PlayStation 3 Arcade Stick

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Plugged it in, the lights flash and none of the buttons function. Read online that after Sony released a firmware update for the PS3, these fight sticks became incompatible. Nice of Amazon to keep selling them though. Returning mine and trying again with something different.

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The second I placed the order for this arcade stick, I read in a review that this no longer works with PS3's with the latest firmware installed. It was too late to cancel the order so now I'm returning it. Much like a previous reviewer, I'm wondering why Amazon is still selling this product. Also, I happened to pick up another arcade stick since this one doesn't work and happened to notice that the quality of this thing is also pretty low compared to others out there.

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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 offmy 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.

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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.

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After reading the good reviews and seeing the price on this item, I decided to try it out. Plug it into my PS3 and the only thing I saw were flashing red lights from the joystick. Read the instruction and tried to hit the home button but still didn't work. I tried restarting my PS3 multiple times, no luck. Ended up returning it