I've been using a saitek for a long while and I found the dpad worked really well. It's a cyborg-something, but yeah, the dpad was sturdy enough and accurate enough to not go wrong directions (especially when playing fighters, which I mostly used it for: pulling off moves and whatnot when your dpad goes places *cough*360*cough* is hell)
But since then I've gotten a 360 controller since I've moved to more recent games, but if I need a good dpad I always plug my old saitek (which surprisingly, compared to all my older controllers, isn't broken at all). I only had the fact it doesn't have as many buttons/shoulders as the 360 controller
But I wanted to try the new Saitek that came out a while ago that is shaped like a 360 controller with as many buttons, BUT you can switch the dpad and left analog stick to make it shaped like a PS3 controller
It looked amazing, but I opted for the 360 controller...
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