HORI Fighting Commander Octa Designed for Xbox Series X|S By - Officially Licensed by Microsoft - Xbox Series X

I played on the PS4 FC for the last 2 years and, to it's credit, it held up to the punishment (around 1500 hours of SFV and various other fighters on both PS4 and PC) but eventually, it's buttons just kinda stopped working. So I decided to jump to the Octo here with my fingers crossed since I play mostly on PC these days and was pleasantly surprised. I couldn't tell you if it will stand the test of time or not, but for the price, I'm not terribly worried. You simply cannot get a controller (of any kind) of this quality at this pricepoint. This one has excellent MECHANICAL buttons that are simply a joy to press. If you love those fight stick buttons, you're going to be a happy camper with this pad. Reception on the D-Pad is mixed, but I love it. My only complaints are that the D-Pad cross has hard edges which can hurt my thumb after hours of continuous play and that it does NOT have the mechanical actuation that the buttons have. I would have happily paid another 10-20 bucks if that was the case, as it feels a little odd to have clicky feedback on one side of the controller but not on the other. But I still give this controller 5-stars despite my hair-splitting complaints. It could be better, but it's still best-of-class. It's great. You should get one.

This HORI Commander Octa Xbox controller is Amazing. As of this review on 12/1/23 - it’s an official Xbox authorized 3rd party controller that is supported after they took access away support from other 3rd party controllers last month. It’s especially great to use with Sega Saturn / Genesis / CPS systems (Street Fighter Arcade cabs, 6 buttons fighters etc) - I bought this specifically to use on my Xbox Series X in dev mode to play Sega Saturn games proper on the Retroarch Emulator; and couldn’t be happier. This was the layout of the original Saturn controller too with a couple extra triggers for quality of life mappings. The D-pad is really nice and responsive. Same with the analog stick, it’s like perfect - I didn’t even have to install HORI’s custom software to make custom tweaks to the D-pad settings and folder presets. It all felt right straight out of the box. Buttons are quick and responsive, They barely need to be pressed to register an input. Took a little to get used to that. But, there’s basically no lag because it’s a wired controller with a 10 foot long cord. The wire also has a safety break away if it gets tugged too hard so that it won’t pull your hardware off the shelf with it. Only issue is there’s no rumble support. But the Sega Saturn never came with rumble controllers anyway. Also this controller is great for N64 mappings as they had 6 face buttons with one analog stick on their original trident shaped controller in the 90’s. If you like retro games and fighting games, then you’ll love his controller. 11 out of 10. Highly recommended.

UPDATE: Original review below but I gotta knock this down to a 1-star. I've got a few dozen hours into this thing now and the dpad is definitely trash. Unlike most bad daps, instead of the corners being bad, it would seem that the cardinal directions are the problem. Which is weird. Even worse, the pad requires a significant hold to keep the input. If you let off even slightly, it'll release back to neutral (or start bouncing back-and-forth with the corner input, which is not good). So I'm killing my thumb just trying to maintain, say, a down input. It's sad because I do like everything else about the pad. This dpad just ain't cuttin it. Giving this a tentative 3-star. The biggest issue for the Hori FC is still the dpad; however, this current iteration is at least better than the redesign one they did with the FC4. My rating is tentative because I can already tell that I'll need to put in some significant time to break in the pad. Right now, it's incredibly stiff, so there are a lot of dropped inputs for certain complex sequences. This could definitely get better once it loosens up, or it could get worse. (Although it still confused the **** out of me that they ever moved away from the original FC4 dpad design. That was one of the best dpad's ever, and right out of the box, too.) I also don't know how the dpad will hold up over time, so it could be low quality and just wear out. We'll have to see. So again, this could go to 5, could go down to 1, just need more hours on it. Otherwise, it's a solid controller. A little light in weight, but still seems to be solid construction. Buttons are all nice and responsive. Really no other complaints than the dpad. I'll also note briefly that I'm a life-long pad player. I see a lot of reviews from stick players; my main controller has always been pad, so I've tried a ton of different brands and styles of pad, including Hori contemporaries like the PowerA Fusion and Razer Raion (which I've reviewed here on amazon). Hori is still way better than those, but Hori is just a ways from the insanely awesome pad that was the original FC4. Take from that what you will.

This controller won't work properly until you go into Hori settings and adjust the dpad sensitivity. After that it's pretty good, and the additional buttons are great.

Street Fighter 6 için almıştım, yaklaşık 1.5 - 2 aydır da kullanıyorum. 3 dizilimli tuş sistemi olması SF için zaten olmazsa olmaz seviyede bir özellik. Stick kısmının mesafesi normal Xbox koluna göre kısa olduğu için move inputlar daha hızlı çıkıyor. Canavar gibi DP çektiriyor. Ayrıca Stick kısmı 8 köşesinden tırtıklı bir yapıya sahip, bu yüzden hangi yöne çevirdiğinizi anlamak daha rahat. Ancak bu tırtıklı yapı stick'i daha hızlı aşındırıyor, bakalım nereye kadar gidecek. :) Tuşlar inanılmaz yumuşak, basma hissiyatı çok güzel. İkili basmalar (Ex atarken veya kapma, DI gibi şeyler yaparken) Xbox koluna göre daha rahat. RSB ve LSB tuşlarını sol omuz kısmına koymuşlar. Bu yüzden oyun içinde onlara da bir takım şeyler atayarak daha hızlı hareketler yapabiliyorsunuz. Mesela ben RSB'ye drive parry aradım, elimi hali hazırda vurma tuşlarından çekmeden parry veya rush yapabiliyorum. Dpad tarafında net Xbox daha iyi. Bazen dpad'in çıkıntılarına tırnağım takılıyor, belki sadece bana özgüdür ama olabiliyor. Kontrolcü aşırı hafif, kablosu kontrolcüden daha ağır. Kablosuz bağlama seçeneği yok ama kablo yeterince uzun. Sanırım 3m kadar var. Kolda eksik hiçbir şey yok. Bence Tekken için de gayet kullanılabilir bir kol ama ben daha çok Street Fighter için aldım. Mortal Kombat'a sanki normal gamepad daha iyi gidermiş gibi duruyor ancak bilmiyorum, ondan çok emin değilim. Street fighter 6'yı da modern layout ile oynuyorsanız, yine normal Xbox veya DS kolu ile devam etmeniz daha iyi olabilir. Bu kolu daha çok classic layout ile SF oyuncuları ve Tekken oyuncuları için önerebilirim ama SF için gerçekten süper oldu.

Great controller. The d-pad allows for super clean inputs (For example, I can easily slide my thumb across it to get a clean back -> forward motion without accidentally hitting the up or down buttons, unlike standard controllers) and the extra buttons means you don't have to do finger gymnastics on 6-button fighters. The controller plastic does feel pretty light and cheap, but it's not really that big of a deal as long as it's functional. It's a lot easier to land combos without messing up inputs with this controller compared to other pads.

初期設定では斜めが時々反応せず波動が出ないことがありましたが、専用ソフトウェアで画像のように感度を設定したら抜けはほぼ無くなりました。 ただLB、LTが大きすぎて力を入れると誤射するのが難点。 自分の癖が原因ですが力が入る人はやや注意。

Ho acquistato questo pad per le mie partite a SFV. Pienamente soddisfatto del prodotto i tasti meccanici fanno il loro dovere e i controlli sia il pad che la leva sono molto comodi. Per chi come me non è un pro e quindi non usa controller tipo quelli arcade è davvero un ottima soluzione.