Arcade Sticks Comparison Chart - Choose the Best PS2 and Xbox Weaponry

November 20th, 2005, 14:01 Posted By: wraggster

News from Lik Sang

The Lik Sang Tech Team took some quality time over the last couples of weeks in order to deliver to you, fighting gaming fanatics, the ultimate comparison chart to rely on when considering the purchase of a high-quality Arcade Stick for your home system. We browse through the most refined selection of gear for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and judge each of them based on various key criteria: Weight, Dimensions, Stick Type, Type of Switch, Type of Buttons, Number of Action Buttons, Size of Buttons, Reactivity of Buttons, bonus features such as Auto-Fire or programmable combos, and, finally, cross-compatibility with other platforms using Smartjoy adapters - we got it all covered.

The Arcade Sticks Comparison Chart is coming in a completely flexible design allowing you to choose on which points you want to compare the Sticks as well as which Sticks you are willing to compare. Take a look at the screenshot below to give you a rough idea, then hurry up to the Arcade Sticks Comparison Chart to check the real thing!

Our Top 3 Contenders

After long arguments in the gaming room, we ended up selecting three Arcade Sticks as our favorite all-around choices. Our top 3, in no particular order, stars Hori's Real Arcade Pro Stick, NubyTech's Street Fighter 15th Anniversary Arcade Stick and Sega's re-born Virtua Stick from the Saturn. The Street Fighter Stick is currently on backorder, the next delivery of it is expected by early December. Both the Virtua Stick and the Real Arcade Pro are in stock and shipping within 24 hours

All these three are massive heavyweight champions and have enough power to please the crowds, from the first-time Stick buyer to the most demanding Street Fighter specialist, with thousands of tournament and competition hours behind him. It's high quality gear we are talking about here, and selecting a clear-cut winner is a tough job. As a matter of fact, the core features being packed in each of these bad boys, the slight style variations are more a question of personal taste really. Where the Hori Real Arcade Stick Pro seems to be the favorite choice for Japanese style lovers (ball stick and sanwa type buttons), the Street Fighter Anniversary Stick is for sure a stylish option when you prefer American style control (HAPPS buttons and bat stick). Then, in the middle, Sega loyalists will just go for the Virtua Stick, also a Japanese style peripheral, with its own legend behind him: the Virtua Stick appeared first on Saturn 10 years ago, made of real parts from Sega's arcade cabinets, then inspired the shape of the well-known Dreamcast Arcade Stick (known as Agetek Stick in the USA), before finally coming back to the PlayStation 2 and to Computers earlier this year. Long time followers will not bother about other options and will not hesitate getting back the same old feeling which they already loved in the nineties.

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