Alt Lab's Smash Stick Kickstarter Campaign Is Now Live

I mean, I recently discovered my wife LOVES fighting games...so I might pick it up, but not as a backer. I'd rather pay moderately more for a product in hand.

6 years?!?! Seriously? There have been Brooks boards out for at least 6 years that can already interface with all systems mentioned excluding GC/N64 which would simply require additional adapters, and Sanwa has been around for decades now..... Do yourself a favor save some money and build your own custom fight stick, far more rewarding.

This button layout and stick is not how smash was designed to be played, the controls are designed around universal simplicity. Having a weird stick and several scattered random buttons just defeats the purpose. You aren't at an advantage here, just letting yourself be fooled into thinking it's better because the other fighting games use it, when in reality those games only work with it because they are designed with arcades in mind

Jeez $250?

Oh well this is more worth then the stupid dumb stupid Atari VCS

Why do they do this, they put up a kickstarter thin take it down when they get there money I have seen it before.

@PBandSmelly So true this in not how this game should be played they keep trying to make it so called better learn how to play the game.

Personally, I don't see it useful for everyone. Button layout is whatever since it's meant to be remapped to what the player will be comfortable with. But there are people out there that are quicker with thumbstick input than they are with a joystick. I'm the opposite, so this might benefit me. I don't play Smash regularly, but this could be an alternative for racing and flying controls. This could also be perfect for SEGA AGES Space Harrier.

@Abstract3000 The point is that the joystick is supposed to be analog, like a thumbstick. Regular fight sticks can only go in 8 directions and can't perform Smash's tilt moves.

Cant imagine myself ever using a stick for smash it was designed for a controller was never an arcade machine or complex input system

I actually know the guys who are producing this. They conceptualized it as a way to bridge the greater Fighting Game Community (FGC) and the Smash community. They've been fine tuning the interface for a while (bringing it to majors for pros and casuals to test) and getting great input along the way. If you remember that Smash is an analog game, and fight stick parts are almost all digital, you may start to realize the work that went into putting it all together. Great people whom I wish all success.

@doctorhino That’s why this is different, this particular stick is analog.

@commentlife my bad, I guess I wasn't getting the point. I see, well that makes sense why it's so expensive.

@doctorhino eh, all good, still not sure I even get the point either haha. Part of the beauty of Smash is the accessibility of it.

@commentlife I'm not sure this stick would be usable on anything else. Considering the whole point is to hear the clicks and be able to be super precise. Games that require combination stick moves that is

GameCube or N64 controller is the only way to play smash.

@PBandSmelly I get the feeling that you formed that opinion without even checking out demonstrations of the benefits of this controller. It's also a bit of an appeal to tradition argument. For your consideration:
1. People have messed up their hands playing Melee with a regular GC controller, so one of the goals of this stick is to introduce a more ergonomic way of play.
2. Some people found certain techniques such as wavedashing and waveshining easier to do consistently with this new controller.
3. Just personal preference/comfort. Some people use pad for traditional fighting games, so why shouldn't Smash players have the choice to try a fightstick?
4. You know how the GC controller layout looks weird but is actually very comfortable? Think about that.

Came here expecting ignorance from Ninten-year-olds, and I was not disappointed.