hard to tell for me, personaly! the most users are playing with a standard controllers and in 3rd person view! that's what i call an arcade game! i'm playing with real handlebars and first person view, like i did before in different MotoGP Games! i also ride a big bike in real life and unterstand how a bike should react on the racetrack under acceleration, braking or leaning. the physics isn't that bad, although it's not a high class simulator, like "assetto corse" for car racing! the biggest room for improvement here is on the tyres and the grip on different temperatures. but that also isn't a big problem! the biggest problem racing with a controller for me is, that the bike reacts way to fast! so beeing precise for me is realy hard! with handlbars you dont have that problem! the way to lean the bike from full lean left to full right is way longer (like it is an a real bike, where you have to move your body and the bike to the other side) as it is on the joystick and a little movement with your thumb and the bike turns imidiatly! that also effects in acceleration and braking with a lil trigger instead of using a braking lever or a throttle! so i can go very precise and fast with my handlebars! this also effects my personal problem with always cold tyres, because i can go mutch smoother than using a controller! i'm nearly always able to use soft tyres in a 30 lap race and holding my pace to the end, without any drop on the grip! the're plenty of gamers way faster using a controller. but for me it's impossible to race with a standard controller! i also like it to see and ride it more as a simulator, as an arcade game! the problem i had with the time was only at the challenges and on high res graphics! after setting it down, i was able to go realy fast (6-8 seconds faster on challenge 1 with only 5 turns, only by setting the graphics down)! but i never had that issue online or in a single race!