The official post

Now, Hori, I love you, but I'm going to have to call bullshit on your latest bullshit. Before there was a Real Arcade Pro, there was the Fighting Stick line of peripherals. You may remember them from the official DOA4 stick (<3 Kokoro <3), or the official Street Fighter IV/BlazBlue stick debacle, or last October. The 360 is drowning in a sea of these things, while the existence of the PS3 variant has been swept under the rug of RAP editions. So, take a good look at this Fighting Stick 3, what's the first thing you notice (besides that it's black, wiseass). Eight buttons. The 360 FSEX only ever had six (one of the principal reasons I replaced it). Since the FS line has been around for quite a while by now, Hori decided to do one of those "refresh" things that the kids these days like. Slap on a new coat of paint and jack the price 20%. Meet the new Playstation 3 Fighting Stick V3. Well looky here, I only see six face buttons. They are X, Circle, Square, Triangle, R1, and R2. The L buttons are located in the upper right corner, above the stick. Not only does this setup make Tekken 6's scenario mode (more) unplayable, it's a slap in the face of PS owners, who up to now have enjoyed a preferential treatment from Hori. Instead of raising the bar for everybody, they're going to lower it for the PS3 crowd. I think that's a shit call Hori. It's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde over there, what's next? An arcade style pad for the 360 with an analog stick instead of a d-pad in the center of the face? Oh wait...