>>717571103
Casual shitter here. I played few times on hitbox and stick and I think I should say with 100% confidence that gamepads suck HARD for fighting games. Even the best ones (DS2, DS4, DS5, cheap usb saturn pad) are such dogshit compared to hitbox and stick (though stick is tricky at first) it's unreal. This is why fighting games are hard. The default tool is just bad (though you probably can emulate hitbox feel on good KB). Yes-yes I know some professional play on pads but it's not really different from professional artists using bad tools for drawing.
>tl;dr
fighting games will be more popular if HORI htiboxes or sticks were cheap. Or if they were part of default console bundles.