So I'm considering getting a fancy fight stick for Marvel vs Capcom 3.  I don't particularly care what the theme of mine is, I just think it would be neat to have one.

I'm looking at the different editions and I see the different editions and I'm wondering what the differences are.

Is it just the art?  Is the Tournament Edition fightstick better than the standard edition somehow?  If not, I can easily get a standard one for liek $50-60 instead of the $140.

Or if someone has a suggestion on other fight sticks, I'm open for that too.

Man, nobody knows anything about fight sticks?

Basically the diffrence is buttons (SE has knock of madcatz buttons while TE has Sanwa ), joystick (madcatz knockoff vs Sanwa JLF) and smaller size of SE.

So quality wise TE is much better.

BUT SE can be moded to have same japanise arcade parts easily (everything inside is made with quick connectors so it's very easy to swap them) so it comes down to the price diffrence question:

http://www.lizardlick.com/Sanwa-JLF-TP-8YT-SK-Joystick_p_260.html

and generally you can use any 30mm buttons:

http://www.lizardlick.com/Sanwa-OBSF-30-30mm-Pushbutton-Vermillion_p_363.html

http://www.lizardlick.com/Seimitsu-PS-14-KN-30mm-Pushbutton-Red_p_505.html

So you are looking at 50-60$ cost of parts to mod SE to TE.

Also you can find some deals on TE sticks putting them in 100$ price range from time to time (recently amazon was selling BB TE PS3 for 90 bucks but this deal seems to have ended)

I played Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter Iv with the Tournament Edition fighting stick. Real nice to playe fighting games with them. But $140 is a lot of money. I stopped playing Street Fighter so I sold the stick. But definetly worth getting if you're into fighting games.

Man, didn't realize people were that serious about their fight sticks!

Thanks for the info, if I get one I'll probably still have to stick with the cheaper version and not modded unless I *really* love the game and get into, $100 plus is just way too much for me to spend on a controller.

A friend has a cheaper fight stick he's going to let me borrow for a while since he's not getting the game so I'll at least get to try one out.

Yeah if you're not doing this hardcore the regular stick should be plenty usefull.  Hell you might be able to find a limited edition Tekken and grab that wireless stick for 60 bucks with game (Though the buttons are a bit stiff, but very serviceable). 

I have 2 housemates who have fight sticks to play fighting games. I don't like them personally, I've played with SNES then Playstation controllers most my gaming/fighting game life so am used to them and I more regularly beat them. No matter how many times my housemate seems to think the 360 d-pad is okay and many people use it, he just doesn't understand why I don't like it, he just thinks I'm prejudice against the 360 and keeps saying 'the pros use fight sticks', I'm far from pro but I'm better then everyone I know and I use a PS controller.

... anywho, one housemate has the $150 TE one above, costing him more then that. The other housemate has the Tekken bundled fight stick, which code him £40 with the game. Tekken one is wireless when the TE one isn't.

All I have to do now is work out how to use a PS2 controller on the 360 and I'm golden. Unless, anyone know what the Matkatz SF4 controller is like?

Kinda late to the party but wanted to mention the Tournament Edition stick is worth it no matter what version you get. I put in 300 hours into fighting games with it and it still holds strong. I slammed my fist into it a few times, dropped it on hardwood floors and it sitll runs well. $150 might seem like a lot for a stick but if your any bit serious about fighting games then you owe it to yourself to get one.

The standard edition stick is only worth it if you put in  < 60 hours into it because that thing will wear down pretty fast. It's basically for the casuals or someone that wants a taste of what It's like to game on a stick.

Honestly once you use a stick you'll never go back. If you look at the tournament level of things there are few people who use fightpads and well but they are rare.

Also I've never seen anyone do extremely well with just a normal 360/PS3 controller at tournament level but I'm sure one exists.

The d-pad on the 360 controller really is useless; no one realizes that when you do a quater circle foward motion (Or reverse) as soon as you hit the foward there's a good chance the upper diagonal will get hit causing you to jump instead.  It takes a bit of practice to not do that.  The madcatz pads are alright, I personally like the PS family of controllers for fighters best, I'm just too used to the button layout and I get the most speed out of that pad vs arcade stick or any other pad for that matter (including the Saturn's pad).

I forgot that Tekken came with a fight stick, I might look into that.  I don't really like that it's wireless and I have to worry about battaries, but I do like the price tag.

Also, I'm getting MvC3 on the 360 so I figure something is necessary.  I have the 360 controller with the twisty D-Pad so maybe that will help, we'll see.  I also have one of the fight pads from when I had SFIV, but I just didn't like it much.  I used it because it was better than the 360 controller, but I've always wanted to try fight sticks.

Also, this is the one I'm borrowing from a friend.

My real worry about the linked one above is it's only 3 buttons per row when the other has 4 buttons.  Do I need that fourth button?