We fired off a bunch of questions to Mark Julio at Mad Catz to pick his brain about the new line Street Fighter 4 controllers.EventHubs.com: Capcom Vice President, Christian Svensson, was quoted as saying, "there's nothing else like them on the market," in regards to the Street Fighter pads. Can you provide more details on that statement?
Mark: For the FightPads, we went back and forth for awhile regarding the design. At first we were trying to do something similar to the Neo Geo Pocket controller, and then eventually we decided to go with the more traditional floating dpad style. We know that the Sega Saturn (Japanese/Model II) controller is held in high regards as THE fighting game pad… So our goal was to go with that style, but not only to match it, but improve upon the design. We feel that we are offering something completely new for fighting game fans. We have an enlarged dpad that rolls and responds much better compared to other dpads currently on the market and we also have enlarged contact buttons arranged in the 6 button layout from other popular controllers. Smooth rubber grips on the side also give you a better hold of the controller. We also have a unique 3 way switch that lets you have the dpad emulate left analog stick, right analog stick, and dpad.
