
The 8BitDo Arcade Stick has awesome, retro NES styling. 8BitDo has made an excellent arcade stick that's perfectly at home on the Nintendo Switch. If you're all smashed out and want to enjoy those other fighting games to the fullest, a fight stick can make your experience better and make it easier to control with the precision these games require. Plenty of great fighting games have come over to the Nintendo Switch even though they face the fierce competition of Super Smash Bros. 8BitDo Arcade Stick Best Nintendo Switch Fight Stick And, if for some reason Hori's Hayabusa parts just aren't your cup of tea, the interior of the fight stick is readily accessible, so you can swap out the stock parts with the arcade components of your choice. The eight main buttons also have a bit of wiggle room around them, helping ensure they don't jam up against the sides of their slots and ruin any of your combos. The Alpha has an eight-direction joystick and is highly sensitive, letting you get a quick response to your actions. The Hori Fighting Stick Alpha has a sleek and sturdy design, and it comes fitted with top-notch components, namely Hori's Hayabusa buttons, switches, and lever. Fortunately, Hori has introduced the new crème de la crème of fight sticks for Xbox and, by extension, PC.
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Mayflash F500 Elite Best Xbox Series X/S Fight StickĪ lot of the best fight sticks seem to get made for PlayStation, and even though many will still work on PC, it can take a bit of mental gymnastics to press the correct controls on the fight stick when presented with on-screen prompts for Xbox controls in PC games. It has a storage compartment for the USB cable, and it includes the crucial Tournament Lock switch to keep you from accidentally hitting a single button that gets you disqualified. The Qanba Drone is ready for you to take with you to tournaments, too.
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Qanba is using its own arcade buttons and joystick, but you can mod the platform if you decide you want to go with the ever-popular Sanwa parts later on. The Qanba Drone has a decent bit of flexibility, offering X-Input and Direct Input support to use with Sony consoles and PC, though its button layout is for PlayStation games. That’s only a little more than you’ll pay for a game and pretty well in line with the price of other game controllers. The Qanba Drone lets you get in on the button-mashing, quarter-circle action of fighting games for just $80. Qanba Drone Best Budget Fight Stickįighting games are a lot easier on fight sticks, but you might not want to pay the price of a brand new game console just to get an edge in a few games. If those quality parts aren’t your personal favorite, the Mad Catz Ego is easily customizable and it even comes with a screwdriver to let you easily open it up. The Mad Catz Ego comes kitted out with Sanwa Denshi ball-top joystick (seated in an eight-way gate) and action buttons. It’s a serious boon to find something that can work for all of the platforms. It'll even work with the PS5 if you connect a DualShock 4 controller to this fight stick. As for the Xbox or PlayStation, all you need to do is plug the respective controller of that platform into the Ego. The Mad Catz Ego works seamlessly with the PCs and Nintendo Switch. At $162, it's also fairly affordable for a fight stick in a market of other $200 and $300 options. What do we mean by that? It’s a fight stick that breaks through the absurd platform-compatibility divide, stands out with quality parts, and is geared up for gamers to tinker with at their leisure. The Mad Catz Ego is a fight stick that’s simply ready to go.
