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what's up guys coming here with TLD at CES I'm talking to Alex here from Mad Catz who's gonna be showing us the range of new fight six they're gonna be releasing and thanks to the release of soul calibur 5 and street fighter cross tekken i'm going to talk a little bit about fight stick so that i'm going to go for a bill ok so at CES 2012 are we got a whole step plethora nay cornucopia of new fighting sticks and finding pads here for soul calibur 5 and 4 a street fighter cross tekken i'm gonna talk a little bit about this Kevin here hold this make yourself useful sir this is a soul calibur 5 soul edition fightstick ladies and gentlemen it's beautiful it dazzles it excites it's the first fights that we've done under an AAMCO franchise so we work with Capcom a lot but this is our brand new soul calibur 5 solo edition fights it first having work with Namco now our Eagle Eye viewers may notice that the the buttons are actually splayed slightly differently than I out there are on our Capcom configurations the stick is slightly further apart as well that's because it matches the other Namco arcade configuration so fans of Tekken in the arcade will feel right at home here it's a beautiful chassis you've got the soul edition bezel that goes around the side you've got the smoked smoked grey translucent case as well so it's a really gorgeous looking stick and like all of our fight sticks it uses the genuine sanwa densha arcade components the bull top joystick the 30-millimeter action buttons as well so yeah they're the same components that you find inside the street fighter arcade and we brought that home for the first time so the sole addition our soul calibur 5 fightstick available on ps3 and 360 and it's shipping now let's talk about the main event you're gonna could you hold up the fight stick behind you keV thank you buddy you're doing a very good job here today by the way up there we go one of those there so this is the street fighter cross tekken arcade fightstick vs and vs stanford vs series again this is my favorite fights thing of all time now this is a brand-new chassis extremely heavy it's built like a tank it's our heaviest fight stick today it looks kind of industrial looking but there's a good reason for that I'll come on to it in a second it's a longer and wider than any sticks that we've used before at the front we've got a new panel that allows you to customize artworks you can put some customized artwork on to that front panel but the reason why it's bigger the reason why it's shaped like this here you can put this down is because it's the first fight stick in the world ladies and gentlemen that transforms so for the first time ever you can actually join two or more fight sticks together so it for the real arcade experience you can buy something called the connection kit from the Mad Catz stores under twenty dollars could you give me a head let's turn this around maybe we can turn this around for the cameras and see if we can pick this bad boy up it's heavy enough ladies and job on this thing could kill a mule let's look at that so you can see there that's called the connection kit and it's a series of metal plates let's put it down that allows you to take the sides off the fight sticks and you can just bolt the two together so it gives you a real arcade experience when it's in this configuration it's actually millimeter two millimeter identical to the to the real Japanese two player arcade machines the arcade cabinet so you really get nothing more authentic if you're building your own home arcade or your own mame arcade it's perfect for that as well so the street fighter cross tekken fightstick vs vs series gonna be available march of the sick how excited are you this has been Alex very reporting from CES 2012 thank you very much I'm keeping the mic you