Hori's Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 fight stick hitting US on Dec. 8

by David Hinkle on Nov 22nd 2011 12:00AM

In the market for a new fight stick? We know a guy -- well, okay, it's not so much a guy as a big, faceless corporation, but you get the point.

Come December 8, you can snag Hori's custom Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 rig for $149.99, Capcom-Unity has revealed. There will be three different versions: the one with the colored buttons above, another with white buttons and a super deluxe edition with built-in cup holder and FM radio.

Okay, fine, we made that last one up, but how awesome would that be? So awesome.

Source: Capcom-Unity

Tags: capcom, fight-stick, hori, microsoft, playstation, ps3, ultimate-marvel-vs-capcom-3, xbox

Reader Comments (15)

I love fighting games, I love fighting sticks, however, I have more than enough fighting sticks and games to hold me for a good long while. In some ways I feel like I'm in a past bizzaro land where I have an over abundance of fighting games and shmup's in my gaming library for this gen.

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery

It's only a matter of time before the fight stick bubble crashes. They're producing waaay too many.

it's not an official marvel stick unless it has american parts

i'm all for sanwas and shit, but playing marvel on anything other than an american layout with happs does not feel right to me

Having started with all Happ parts (competition joystick, competition pushbuttons) and having moved to Seimitsu stick+buttons to now a Sanwa stick with Seimitsu buttons....no way in hell I'd go back to Happ parts, sorry.

@zero2dash

imo different games need different styles of sticks.

Granted I'm more of a "fighters only" stick player, but I don't see any reason why a stick with all Japanese parts isn't adequate for anything.

The problem with Happ parts is the stiffness due to the stiffer spring. Their convex CP's are more preferable IMHO to the concave CP's (I've used both), but their sticks are night and day worse than either Seimitsu or Sanwa's sticks.

That being said - it's all personal preference obviously. Some people prefer a stiffer joystick, I don't (anymore). I'm also very impressed with how quiet Seimitsu and Sanwa sticks are (especially Sanwa).

If you're playing a specific game, you can easily modify any stick with different gates (ie a 2 way or 4 way).

I played all the way through MvC2 with solely Happ boxes I built myself, but after having built an all Seimitsu box and then now owning 2 HRAPEX's (but swapping out the Hori buttons with the clear Seimitsu buttons only because LizardLick didn't have the clear Sanwa buttons at the time)....I would not go back to a Happ box ever again.