Why hasn't MS revisioned the 360 controller with a better d-pad?

Well, the fact is that most of current games doesn't require the D-pad AND fighting games are not a mainstream genre anymore. Since launch I've been complaining about it, I bought my 360 to play DOA4, and the d-pads proved soon enough not being apropriate for playing 2D or 3D fighting games. Try playing GGX2 and you'll see what I mean.

But MS is not doing anything to fix their controller simply because there are not many fighting games (compared to the huge number of shooters and FPS that are released on the console). We could even make a list of the games released since launch day and it would hardly have more than 15 titles.

I bought a Hori DOA4 stick (there's a VF5 stick for those who hate Kokoro ^_^), it works great with DOA4, SFII, GGX2, VF5, DOA3, DOAU and with shooters like Ikaruga, Triggerheart Exelica and 1942. I just don't think Microsoft will go for a new design for the 360 controller, and all the other third party d-pads I've tried are just about the same horrible thing.

Sometimes the damn thing is VERY unresponsive, luckily i rarely use the d-pad therefore i dont have many issues with oit.

cheetfreak

maybe you need to buy a better controller, my D-pad works just fine.

The question... shujikun07

I guess the same reason Sony hasnt done something about their loose toggles.

[QUOTE="FamiBox"]

No. It does have problems.

There is not enough space between the inner lip wall and the pad section of the d-pad. This causes the pad to sometimes hit the inner wall surrounding the pad and prevents the direction from responding correctly.

hrah

Exactly.

Yeah, what he said ^^,

its fine, i preffer it over any other controler.

the d-pad definately sucks for fighting games, especially for Street Fighter III 3rd Strike

but those that love fighting games should be using a Hori arcade stick anyway

the best D-pad to me was the Dreamcast one... I remember playing King of Fighters 98 on it for dayssssss... I downloaded SFII HF from XBLA, the horrible d-pad made me want to destroy my room... I hope a new redesigned controller is made in time for all the great fighters coming out later this year

Sorry if I'm resurrecting an old post, but I thought it'd be interesting to see how people feel about the 360 D-Pad; now that SF4 is out. I personally picked up a madkatz fightpad and although it's wired I'm rather happy with it. I think I'm lucky though, because I've heard some horror stories with hardware quality assurance with the fightpad.