awesome, thanks for sharing!
I’ve updated the first post.
That’s great news. Has anyone confirmed that the release day is indeed Feb 18th and not the 17th ? or is that the price Canadians have to pay…
Can anyone else confirmed that they’ve successfully locked in a pre-order for the TE stick?.
If it’s like $160 or something I’m going to get 2 of them. :bgrin:
I’m going to see my friend today, I’m just going to double check with him that it is releasing on the same day as the launch. I’ll confirm if it is coming or not.
man, to pre-order or not…should i really spend $200 on a stick?
Yes… yes you should. Infact, you should spend 400 for 2.
Going to the most obscure EB is a way to get the TE stick. I have about four around me, and all the big ones were sold out.
You’re way too late. GL finding one at this time. :wonder:
Well, I managed to get into EBgames (Kelowna, BC) and they let me stick a pre-order down on the TE edition. Now hopefully they actually come thru and give me a call.
They did say mid to late March… keeping my fingers crossed.
Fuck it!!! I’m going to pay the $228 US. I don’t want to have to pay 400+ to some of the jerks that’ll probably put them on Ebay for that amount. :mad:
I’ll pre-order tonight and let you guys know how stuff turns out.
Just in terms of a release date, i preordered my a couple of weeks back and the guy in store said expect it for Feb 18 (even wrote it on my receipt) and since then I have heard others say end of march so I figured it was worth calling head office. I spoke to a very helpful guy there who actually had no info but told me he was going to speak with one of their buyers and get back to me. He just called me back , informing me that Mid March is the EARLIEST we can expect them. There is an issue of demand and until they know how much of it there is they will not start shipping them, he suggested that because of the price and specialized nature of the item they may not even be in production again for a second run because they fear overproducing them and being stuck with a bunch of extra 200$ arcade sticks. so there you have it MID MARCH or later, and it sounded like later was a very real posibility
I just checked with my friend. He said that it is scheduled for the same day as SFIV in their system at work.
Well thats a kick to the nuts… It does strike me as odd that he mentions that they might not even go into a second production run when a Madcatz rep said pre-order amounts in the states are many times the original run of 3000… how in the hell are Canadians going to get the TE sticks at all by that logic?
unforrtunately, the system has always said feb 18th but most stores have been telling ppl mid-late march. On a side note are they still taking pre-orders ?
You can never trust the system in re: to release dates. I’m pretty sure they still have FF13 listed for release early this year.
And YMMV on pre-orders for both the sticks and the CE
Dunno. Time will tell I guess. Till then, if I have to I’ll play SFIV with my crummy Tekken 4 hori stick.
No i wasnt suggesting there wouldnt be a second production run, only that they arent going to start it until they know how many it is they need to produce
Just came from Gamestop, they said they are only taking orders for the TE stick now.
Just pre-ordered from video game central $228 after shipping. :sad:
Dude, that site is very shady. They kept their preorders open for a long time, and I really don’t think they’ll meet their orders. When I preordered from EB, I canceled from them and they charged me 5% for canceling. So yeah you should watch out for them.
EDIT: ugh, I just saw the grammar in my post. lol