Maybe, but for whatever reason I never could get adjusted to them for fighting games. Despite spending many many hours playing Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Samurai Showdown, etc. at the arcades as a youngster.This is good in the long run but no doubt takes some practice getting used to, but with a joystick the controls are precise: you are pressing one direction and ONLY one direction. It's good when you want to play precisely.