ST90 Joystick

This is great...and you kclark955 are wonderful...it is exactly as you said it was...honesty...I love it...the game controller joystick is exactly as you said it is...great condition...and it serves the purpose that I was hoping for...I have recently become interested in aviation simulation and I wanted a controller other than my computer mouse...5 stars to you...you are definitely on my Christmas shopping list...thank you so much.

I was looking for a simple joystick to use with my WWII fighter pilot game and decided to purchase the Saitek ST90. The joystick arrived with no software whatsoever. I wasn't too put off because I knew I could probably download the necessary drivers from the Saitek Web site. The problem came when I ran the driver installer. When it was nearly finished it asked me to plug in the controller, even though the controller was plugged in. Unplugging and replugging in the controller didn't help. The "profiler" software installed, but only the profile editor would work, not the Profiler itself.None of this would have mattered if it would have simply allowed me to play the game I bought it for. But after hours of configuring, uninstalling, reinstalling and general troubleshooting the best I could do was get the controller to pitch and dive. Left and right movements were non-existent. Not much help in a fighter plane.The Saitek user forums didn't offer any help, and my email to Saitek tech support went unanswered.Thinking it may have been an issue with my laptops Vista software I tried to install it on my desktop running XP Pro with the same dismal results.Not only could I NOT recommend this joystick, I'm wondering how a company that sells something of this poor quality can still stay in business!

This is the third ST90 that I've owned; the past two were great. The latest one while in the neutral position causes the airplane to drift and go into a left bank. Nothing I do seems to rectify the situation.

Awesome but kind of confusing to use, at first, but you get used to butYou do fine once you get using it alot and play with it alot!!!

I bought this product in 2009 in the hopes of getting a nice joystick that is portable. Is is not that nice, and is somewhat portable. First off, there are much, much better joysticks for the price I originally bought this for.Pros:+...it's portable?+it's usb? (barely a pro, and only because it doesn't use gameport, which is antique and no longer supported by Microsoft)+Rubber feet (though I'd expect any good joystick, and is pushing it for pros)Cons:+too few buttons, which are cheap+digital throttle is finicky, you can only press near the inside of the buttons otherwise it won't register a button press+looks cheap+sits too high off of the ground+can fall over if you push it too far+missing a degree of freedom, can't pivot/turn from side-to-side like my old sidewinderIt's too useless, I'd need to use a keyboard in conjunction, and even then it's still missing a degree of freedom, the pivoting, which I use for rolling maneuvers. I'm on the hunt now for a new joystick, and wish I never bought this thing; go figure they're no longer selling it new. Lucky you. (And unlucky me if I try to sell it on here ;P )

Light for travel; cheap for trials; ambidextrous.I own 2 so far. I use it for left-handed strafing thrusters in space sims. Light, but very stable on their own. Still, for heated dogfighting, I drilled one to my table with roofing screws.The throttle is very "meh". It's awkward to press and tapping is a 20% jump while hold is a delayed steady 1% increase. I'd rather it be a hat switch and leave throttle to the keyboard or something else.

Almost a decade later I still have this joystick, it's worth every penny.

This joystick lacks sorely in features, HOWEVER if all you need is a joystick for throwing in your bag to go something this joystick CANNOT be beat in portability.