Maybe in your area. Anyways, local fighting scenes are full of people with sticks.
Before you end up being better than ever. Also, sticks are cheap these days.
What does outdated have to do with good design? I used to own a 360. I had no problem with picking it up right away. Or taking that further, playing it at my friends house. This goes for any controller except for the Wii mote. All of them are designed well enough that if yuo're not a retard you can pick up and play any of them. I even had a 360 and a PS3 for a while and had no problem going back and forth. Hell, suddenly switching to/from inverted is a much bigger change in terms of getting used to something.