I have played the Xbox 360

[A Black Falcon]

Maybe the fact that I think this gamepad is the best dual-analog PC gamepad says something bad about PC gamepads, given its flaws (the low-resistance, square-edge analog sticks, the odd button numbering, the fact that buttons 5 and 6 (the top two on the face) are a bit offset and smaller (though as you can see nothing like the Xbox)... but it is overall pretty good. It's got a nice dpad, decent construction, it works well...

For digital-only I'd probably still say that the original MS Sidewinder is as good as it gets, but for dual-analog games that's not enough, and the Saitek is cheap enough, and good enough, that I found it a good purchase.