13th May 2010, 10:22 PM
I forgot to mention it, but I got one more thing today (um, yesterday) too...
For $15, a complete in box Playstation Street Fighter: Anniversary Collection controller, Akuma version. This was in a local store, the same one I got the non-ebay stuff today. I'd seen them there for a few days now and thought about getting one, and after checking EBay prices decided to go for it. This store is kind of odd, some of their prices are based on ebay sales and thus are quite high ($175 for a Genesis with Sega CD, 32X, 3-button turbo arcade stick, another controller I think, the cables, and like two average games? I think not!), and others are reasonable, like this one.
I mean, checking EBay, the Akuma version of this is the rarest one by far, very few show up there. The other three PSX versions, and the three Xbox versions, are all more common... but the store charged the same $15 for this one as for their other also complete-in-box SFAC controller, the PSX Ryu one. That's nice. :)
Oh, yes, it was complete, with box, plastic inside that holds the controller, comic book/manual in plastic slipcover, and stickers.
I have, of course, been wanting a Playstation controller with six face buttons and no ridiculous missing-center dpad (that is, with a less horribly bad design), and this controller achieves that. It's not fantastic, but still, it's better than the PSX pad... it's comfortable, seems to work well, and is reasonably well designed, if a little strange. It was absolutely a good purchase, I think I'll be using this quite a bit...
As for flaws, the main ones are:
-It's quite thick -- twice or more thicker than a Genesis controller, for example. I have no idea why.
-Small shoulder buttons -- they should have been much larger, like SNES shoulder buttons. They're usable, but small.
-No rumble. Unfortunate.
-Only average build quality. It's from NubyTech, and it's probably better than an average controller of theirs, but the build quality is obviously not first party. It feels a little cheap, despite how thick it is.
Also, I wish that there was a green one on the PS2... the only green one was the Guile on on the Xbox. Oh well...
For $15, a complete in box Playstation Street Fighter: Anniversary Collection controller, Akuma version. This was in a local store, the same one I got the non-ebay stuff today. I'd seen them there for a few days now and thought about getting one, and after checking EBay prices decided to go for it. This store is kind of odd, some of their prices are based on ebay sales and thus are quite high ($175 for a Genesis with Sega CD, 32X, 3-button turbo arcade stick, another controller I think, the cables, and like two average games? I think not!), and others are reasonable, like this one.
I mean, checking EBay, the Akuma version of this is the rarest one by far, very few show up there. The other three PSX versions, and the three Xbox versions, are all more common... but the store charged the same $15 for this one as for their other also complete-in-box SFAC controller, the PSX Ryu one. That's nice. :)
Oh, yes, it was complete, with box, plastic inside that holds the controller, comic book/manual in plastic slipcover, and stickers.
I have, of course, been wanting a Playstation controller with six face buttons and no ridiculous missing-center dpad (that is, with a less horribly bad design), and this controller achieves that. It's not fantastic, but still, it's better than the PSX pad... it's comfortable, seems to work well, and is reasonably well designed, if a little strange. It was absolutely a good purchase, I think I'll be using this quite a bit...
As for flaws, the main ones are:
-It's quite thick -- twice or more thicker than a Genesis controller, for example. I have no idea why.
-Small shoulder buttons -- they should have been much larger, like SNES shoulder buttons. They're usable, but small.
-No rumble. Unfortunate.
-Only average build quality. It's from NubyTech, and it's probably better than an average controller of theirs, but the build quality is obviously not first party. It feels a little cheap, despite how thick it is.
Also, I wish that there was a green one on the PS2... the only green one was the Guile on on the Xbox. Oh well...