and the $60 question, is it common ground or not?
It probably isn’t, but we won’t know for sure till someone is able to check it out. MarkMan has mentioned before that he doesn’t post pcb specs.
Pretty much waiting for Mad Catz Ultra Street Fighter IV Fightstick TE 2 edition at this point.
Does it have anything to do with this?
I’d like to point out that these are coming out in April, not today.
work your chinese sweat shops workers faster…
If they do get the license to so a stick for GGXrd, they need to have it in Sega layout.
It won’t be. There’s no reason for it to have a different PCB. That adds cost/tooling/etc that’s already been paid for, not to mention that if this is a spec. that MS is forcing adherence to as indicated by Mark it just compounds things.
@MarkMan - Does this still have the little front LED for the latch release, or are ALL of the LED features taken out?
Wasn’t it mentioned somewhere that Microsofts specs for controllers prevent this from being common ground?
I guess we’ll find out when Razer release their own pad and arcade stick 
This stick looks like shit and hella overpriced. Only an idiot would buy this.
Dude, there’s no need to be like that. At the end of the day it’s a decent enough stick (disappointments aside) and it’s guaranteed to come up as a future sale item if you can’t afford one now.
I’m sorry $200 for this stick is highway robbery. We as a community should be smarter and vote with our wallets.
No, Highway robbery is paying $250 for a used TE Round 2 on Amazon.
The Razor Atrox sells for $200 and it has no LEDs, Why not a Mad Catz Stick?
When I first started to go to Shoryuken.com $180 to $250 retail stick were the norm.
I am telling you now, you can’t make a custom Xbox One stick for less. $60 for the MS Xbox One controller, $23 for a Sanwa JLF, $3 for a Balltop, $32 for 8 Sanwa Sanwa OBSF-30, $8 for the three 24mm buttons, About $10-$20 in wire and related supplies,$146 and thats without a case and you are not going to find a DIY case that cheaply. A TEK-CASE S1-B plexy case is $55 with no extras.
Thats $201 right there, no shipping cost or labor, cost of tools or such added yet. Oh wait we need a USB cable, that is another $5 if your smart, otherwise it cost you $15.
$216 is the cheapest you can go to build a Xbox One Stick if you did the whole job yourself, cutting every corner you can, had all the tools, knew what your doing and I still didn’t factor in cost of shipping.
That $200 for a factory made stick with a case that cost you atleast $100-$130 alone. Similar case from b15 would cost as much as 2 or 3 Mad Catz TE2 sticks.
Until there’s a cheap common ground 3rd party controller for the system, you can rule out an easy/inexpensive dual mod as well.
Even then DIY means are not always the cheapest.
No, highway robbery is an act of non-consensual force and illegal. No one is making you buy this stick, if you don’t want it then don’t get it, simple as that.
You could simply modify any existing arcade stick you have with the MS common ground pad pcb and be done.
The plastic casing of my Xboxone TE2 is already discoloring.
I get your point, but I think your numbers are way off. There’s no way in hell Madcatz is paying close to retail for components to make this stick. Also, you can’t really compare a niche specialty stick maker like B15 to Madcatz. Not the same thing.
I remember when new Virtua Stick High Grades were under $80. Have times changed that much? I doubt Madcatz overall build quality exceeds it.