Soulcalibur 5 fight stick coming courtesy of Mad Catz

You'll be able to 8-way-run in style next year, as Mad Catz is introducing a Soulcalibur 5-themed version of its Tournament Edition FightStick, shipping for Xbox 360 and PS3 to coincide with the launch of Namco's latest. Fittingly, it's called the "Soul Edition," though it thankfully doesn't claim to take the soul of its user in exchange.

Like the Soul Edge, however, SC5's fight stick is composed of mythical, unknown parts (Mad Catz isn't telling just yet). The "Soul Edition" fight stick will launch in January 2012 alongside Soulcalibur 5, though we've yet to receive an official price.

Soulcalibur 5 "Soul Edition" Fight Stick

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MAD CATZ® ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT WITH NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC® TO CREATE
SOULCALIBUR™V ARCADE FIGHTSTICK SOUL EDITION

SOULCALIBUR™V Arcade FightStick Soul Edition Is Expected to Launch Worldwide
January 2012

San Diego – October 25, 2011 – Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. ("Mad Catz") (AMEX/TSX: MCZ)
announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Namco Bandai Games Inc, to produce the
SOULCALIBUR™V Arcade FightStick Soul Edition, a Tournament Edition fighting game controller
for use with the upcoming SOULCALIBUR V videogame. The agreement gives Mad Catz worldwide
rights to ship products for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and for the
PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system from Sony®.

"The FightStick product category continues to perform well for us globally and the addition of the popular
SOULCALIBUR franchise leverages both our brand and market leadership." said Darren Richardson, the
President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. "Leveraging licenses on a global basis
is part of our long term growth strategy to build our worldwide business."

Reader Comments (17)

The colored buttons on the 360 version sure do ruin the look of the artwork.

@cy4nid3 this is true/sad

I want to meet the dude that buys all the Mad Catz arcades stick for each fighting game released...even though they are (mostly) the same, except for the artwork.

@Lordd G

They are actually all the same.

It's gotten a little old.

@Lordd G
Yeah this looks like it was made out of a Tekken fight stick. I figured it out!

that looks freaking sick, only problem is will we ever see this in europe or not? also is it wireless or wired?

@(Unverified)
Its most likely wired. All of madcatz sticks have been wired until now, i dont see why that would change unless they wanted the sticks to have input lag.

@(Unverified) If Mad Catz was smart they would never, ever, ever make a wireless arcade stick.

Luckily for them, they have Markman on their payroll and he's not stupid enough to build a wireless stick.

that FightStick is a TightStick!

Is it me or does the buttons look curved? Like the hori real arcade pro 3. I don't mind myself seeing that I own an hrap, but it might annoy some of the old TE stick fans.

Wish they had a teardrop stick option (folks please correct me if there is!!!).

I dun like cupping the ball stick.

@Chiren

Its a bat-top ...and you can buy one separately with an adaptor that fits perfectly with any sanwa\semitsu joystick. Also...I think somewhere in your post you forgot to add .."pause" (just sayin')

You can paint it however you want to MadCatz.... you won't be winning one over on this Hori supporter no time soon.

@RagingStormX
Eh they won me with the TvC stick because it was $10 then I just modded it so it's basically no longer the original stick. Still cheaper and better then the crap they put out.

@The Aquacharger

Hell yeah, I dual modded my TvC stick to work wireless on the PS3 (sixaxis pcb mod) as well as wired into the Wii controller for use on TvC and GG XX Accent Core Plus (by far the best and most difinitive version of Guilty Gear ever released) and on certain VC games, not to mention it will have compatability with the WiiU, should I ever be tempted to buy one of those contraptions. Soon I'm going to mod it further to work as a wired legacy controller on my Xbox, Gamecube and PS2 as well. Meanwhile, the last hori I bought wasn't common ground, which makes it virtually unusable for dual mods. If you're going inexpensive, Madcatz arcade sticks are better than the Hori entry level conrollers these days, even if they are still slightly inferior to the hrap (which is quite a bit more expensive).

looks pretty good, i like the artwork on this one compared to the SF ones

I'm curious if the body is actually shaped or if it's just painted to look interesting, since I really can't tell if it's a round 1 body or round 2

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Soulcalibur 5 fight stick coming courtesy of Mad Catz

Soulcalibur 5 "Soul Edition" Fight Stick

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Posted: Oct 27th 2011 1:01PM cy4nid3 said

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