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think i'll be picking up the £69 edition though. I need a new hoodie. I think a little part of me would die inside if i ever paid £150 for a game. A hoodie you say? At least they know their target audience... guess you didn't get rockband or the latest guitar hero then. dont care what "quality parts" its made out of - is ****ing plastic. costs next to nothing. the profit mark up they must be making on these things is ridiculous.
£40 for a fighting game TOPS. even thats a rip off. fighting games dont last too long. SF4 cost me £25 brand new. that was spot on pricing. It all depends on how much of a Tekken fan you are really, as this arcade stick will undoubtedly enhance playing the game. As for making a profit on it, well that's the name of the game, some would say it's crazy to pay £350 for an iPhone or £25,000 for a Rolex, it's all personal choice.
And as for fighting games not lasting long...that's rubbish, fighters are games you can come back to time and time again especially when you're playing against mates using different characters as there's no set end goal. How good is this stick compared to the SF4 TE Stick.
I bet it will come down to the type of nerd sorry expert player you are. Those sticks are damn beasts. If you spent your youth in Arcades like me then tried one of these, they ooze quality. The difference between a good arcade stick and a bad one is huge when you play these type of games alot. Like the equivalent of buying a £10 microsoft optical mouse to a Logitech G5 gaming mouse for something like Quake3 Arena 1v1... especially if you are a pro-gamer * :)
*just an example as others prefer different mice to just the G5.. Like the Razor ones :) Its make me laugh that people are arguing over the price of the stick, when the game its coming with is Tekken 6. I was the biggest fan up til 3, after that I could never be bothered. I'll just be getting the game itself. Not spending that money on such things I *heart* my Razer Death Adder. :P I've got to agree with this. I can accept that, in life, well made things born of quality materials generally cost more. I can also appreciate that Hori make a good stick. What i don't get, as Grasshopper so eloquently muses, is how a collection of metal, switches and plastic correlates to a price-tag of about a ton.
My SF anniversary stick cost less than that, and it was shipped from Japan with a rather hefty duty imposed on it to boot. I paid £20 for my Hori Arcade Stick EX2 from Gamestation. I've also got a Street Fighter IV FightPad. So I'm all set for fighting games when it comes to controllers.
Looking forward to Tekken 6 anyway. In my personal opinion, T5 was the best 3D fighter of the last gen. Looks like Namco are building on that success, what with keeping the same director for the sequel. Should be good!
If the hoodie looks anything like Jin's purple/blue/gold number, then it could be sweet. I'll just be buying the game on its own regardless.
Fighting games don't last long? What the **** are you babbling on about now?! Fighting games are one of the few genres which will last you years. That's if you've got friends to play them with of course. :shock: £150....on your bike Namco, I'll take the standalone game thanks. I love fighting games, and used to play them all the time in arcades ... But i had a Hori Stick for about a week before I returned it, it just felt cheap and plasticky ... I love fighting games, and used to play them all the time in arcades ... But i had a Hori Stick for about a week before I returned it, it just felt cheap and plasticky ... | 
