Arcade Sticks for Home Consoles

[Hurezeanu]

As much as I like playing SF and KoF, my thumb is starting to kill me. The PS controllers just weren't made to play fighting games on, I'm getting blisters trying to do half circle/full circle motions on the direction pad... I figure I need an arcade stick. Now the sticks made by X-Arcade look amazing (http://www.x-arcade.com/), lifetime warranty and adapters for almost all consoles? wow.

But here's the thing... I'm generally not much of an arcade player these days, and thus I am horribly unused to playing with the arcade sticks. I borrowed my friend's Tekken arcade stick (it came in a big box set with Tekken 5), and I find that it is incredibly hard to pull of simple motions, which I can manage with a normal PS controller. But really, the only game I'm having difficulty with using either the normal controller or the Tekken 5 arcade stick, is KOF XI, it just feels like the directional controls need to be so precise to execute anything properly...

I don't want to dish out $$ for a stick that won't help me execute moves with more ease, so I really need all the input I can get. Any and all suggestions/help are greatly appreciated!

[vlame]

http://www.massystems.com/ProStick.html

I hear they are very good. I peronally have a hori for my saturn, I'll try that on KOF as soon as I can.