This was my first arcade stick in nearly 20 years - well, 'Fighting Stick if you prefer - and my first impressions were very good. It feels solid and well built, an impression increased when you open the controller up using the hinge system, with the mechanism being strong, easily supporting the controller when it is open. The slightly thinner looking plastic on the sides is not part of the main unit itself, but carefully placed handles for lifting the controller when it is on your lap. It also had a sculped base which also acts as a handle.
My only complaint with the design is the storage of the power cable - which is wound round a retaining section which has the wires from some of the buttons underneath it. You have to be very careful, because the loose wires feel delicate and somewhat brittle. I've actually just left the power cable out permanently because of this. If you're careful though it can be wound back on.
The Hayabusa joystick is very high quality - and whilst somewhat louder than a Sanwa joystick feels tighter and more precise somehow. This is a real selling pont for this stick in my opinion and one I am surprised Hori do not advertise on the box.
Which leads to my only real complaint with the product. It says on the box that 'the joystick can be set to the D-Pad or left analog stick', it then says in the downloadable manual that you can do this using the companion app - however when you install the app no such facility exists. I messaged Hori UK about this, their reply, which took 2 weeks to arrive didn't answer my question. So it must be assumed that this facility doesn't exist, which makes it feel strange they advertised it on the box rather than bigging up the quality of the components like Razer do with the Atrox.
This complaint, and the slow response from Hori customer service isn't enough for me to drop a star off the product score though. I've been using it for over a month now and this is a 5 star quality arcade stick and easily as good as the Razer Atrox.
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