Replying to Movement joystick

i have the opportunity to buy next year joysticks at a good price. so some questions to those who already ski them:

are the the same as last year?
how are they: on the web, they are said to be really soft a soooo fun, and on last year french "skieur magazine" they are said to be really hard nd directive.

Who's right?

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