Dude was talking bullshit. He’s so way off. First off octagonal is worse for street fighter for the most part because you cant feel the corners when you do dragon punches if its too round. (octagonal vs square)
And two… both editions of the joysticks has the same kind of gates and the exact same joysicks. Both have square gates. Hes pulling that shit out his ass. They both feature Sanwa JLF sticks in them with SQUARE GATES. You can spend like 10 bucks to buy the piece to put under the joystick to make then octagonal. Or matter of fact I can mail you the octagonal shit free because its total shit and I have like 4 octagonal gates I dont ever use because square is soo much better for street fighter.
You can get a tournament edition stick for like $129 on amazon with free shipping that store is full of shit. lol run!
Ok heres the deal
a GATE is the piece that snaps on under the joysticks that RESTRICT the movement of the stick to the directions. With octagonal there are more sides.
With standard 4 way you get up down left right and the diagonals when you dig into the corner (doiwn right motion) for your dragon punches you feel it more. Unless you using Zangief for spinning pildrivers dont go octagonal.
I have a better chance htiiing that diagonal with the square one. Meaning SHORUKEN in your face is more likely to activate if my stick has it. lol.
