It's a step in the right direction, at least they've acknowledged it sucks, I thought they were oblivious all this time!

We might get the perfect controller next gen now

Wow, that is really cool! 

The only thing that sucks is I like the colors on the buttons, I can recognize colors much quicker than symbols or letters so that might slow me down a little.

Jesus. That certainly took them long enough.

If Street Fighter community says "yay", ill buy it. But I wont rush out to get it like I did that SF4 pad from madkatz which was garbage.

Last time they tried to make the d-pad better it was still crap. altough this looks decent.

I never understood how they could make such an awesome controller with such a sucky d-pad.

Kinda shitty that they don't include it with the 360S but I have the feeling it will be bundled in with it soon enough.

I'm starting to think selling my old 360 was a good call... now when I upgrade, I'll be getting a HDD 12x the size, wi-fi, HDMI, an improved controller, and all bundled into a sexier package.

I've haven't used a D-Pad since Kirby and the Crystal Shards

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That's a myth, done properly you only need 4

On the board, yes I agree you can have only up, down, left, right...But you really need 8 directions on the dpad itself. Example... Sega Saturn pad, best pad in the world.