2023 was truly the year of Haute42, a company that has produced so many slim and affordable leverless controllers, and other companies performed well too.
The T series of Haute42 controllers comes in 16 or 13 button versions to suit your fighting game preferences.
With the KBHX-01, you get a mini WASD controller available in different colors and can even work on the PS5 with a dongle.
The Mayflash F700 is a wireless arcade stick that has many compatibility options as well as customizable artwork.
The KBHX-02 could very well be the first fighting game controller with ventilation in the history of humankind.
Order your Kombox Impact preassembled with Sanwa buttons or in DIY format, and there is a joystick edition too.
The Haute42 M16 can also be a WASD controller. As for the M13 edition, it has three less buttons than the M16.
If there's a most innovative award, the JTechWorkshop would definitely be a contender. Its leverless controllers have highly custom layouts.
The SGF Faust is a mini stickless controller with LED plus a TRS jack for external input sources like foot pedals.