It would be silly for Mad Catz not to have a mid range stick, there’s a shortage of good mid-range sticks and a lost opportunity I reckon. People don’t want to shell out £150 for their first stick, they want to get good with a cheaper stick first then get a quality stick when the development of their game requires it. At the moment only Hori seems to be catering for that area of the market, catering for the low and and high end consumer, which means not only are they getting the profit from the first sale in said gamer’s purchasing history but are more likely to get the additional profit when that gamer buys a more expensive stick from a brand they come to know and love. I’m not saying that this happens all the time, but if you want to make money you have to grasp opportunities like this and take them from your competitors, the shortage of SE’s can not be helping Mad Catz in this area.
oh wow! I really honestly thought it was a decal. I could have sworn there was an edge coming up on the artwork on one of the sticks I was checking out. If it is in fact metal, that’s great news
There is a decal.
What you saw was right.
But what you say is wrong.
so, is it actually a decal on a metal plate? I guess if that’s the case, I’m still a bit bummed about the decal as I stated before, though relieved that the control panel underneath is metal and sturdier than I had originally assumed… does that make sense?
the bottom of it is just a turn off to me but i need to see and feel it for myself to give it the final verdict
Thats what she said…now im married to the gal…
Erm the TE sticks have always been available for around £99 in fact you can order the right now for that, but yea the real problem is that madcatz simply aren’t manufacturing enough sticks or maybe madcatz don’t give 3rd party etailers enough stock deliberately so people have to pay their overinflated price direct from them.
Besides I’d rather see madcatz make a much superior fightpad the current one is laughable build quality and the D pad still horrendous.They should make a design exactly the same as the official 360 pads but with a sanwa D pad.
i think it might be a mid range or something but the more i look at this stick the more it looks like a hori pro v3 sa model stick…
just me thats all
Well technically the V series is Hori’s mid range. Mad Catz doesn’t offer a premium stick.
its like the new wireless headset for the 360 by tritton…y cant they make it for the ps3 aswell…turtle beaches and others are…wth…markman…shed the light lol
Sanwa d-pad?
Complaining about legit business practices is stupid. Anyone who’s taken up basic economics would know that putting out alot of sticks would devalue the product and end up making the company lose money.
$150 is a decent price for a tournament caliber stick with full Sanwa parts, even Hori’s V-series HRAPs cost just about the same. Don’t like it, go ahead and make your own… oh wait, a decent custom actually costs more.
Haters gonna hate. I’ll be one of the first to preorder it.
i will end up getting it too but i want to crack it open and def change the art
Sanwa parts would never replace a SE stick. Maybe in a perfect world… but not in a business world. You feel what I’m sayin?
I was going to post the same thing.
Why would Sanwa be in SE?
Does not make sense.
More expensive than the TE? Oh no…
Quoted for truth!
Even modding a retro stick — an Agetec Green Goblin, Namco, OR Hori FS or American T5 – can be more expensive than buying a new/on-sale or used Mad Catz TE or HRAP 3.
That said, I kind of wish that at least a limited release of a Seimitsu HRAP V-series would be done in the US.
Replacing even just the Sanwa levers with Seimitsu LS-32-01’s or LS-40-01’s gets expensive!
I think (maybe_ only the 360 joysticks have had Seimitsu edition releases in the States.
I gotcha.
Surely you could fit the MC Sanwa clones in it and leave off the ‘pro’? Though it is kind of a hefty case for an SE-priced stick.
Maybe the TE is about to move up-market. TE-X, 'cause it’s big like Texas.