Has the Atrox made it to market yet?
Are you in Europe or Asia?
Yeah, it's been on the market for over two months now. It might be American-only shipping, maybe not... I don't know.
As of this moment, it's Net-shop only orders. You have to buy from Razer's website... nobody else sells the stick direct as far as I know and the mark-ups I've seen elsewhere from Asian/European importers are RIDICULOUS. You can't buy it in a regular videogame brick/mortar store and I doubt they will ship them to those mainstream stores. You'll have to buy the joystick online. Sorry!
The joystick IS nice, BUT it's a bit overpriced for what it is... Mad Catz has incorporated a lot of the same features in the TE2 for the XBONE but that's over a month away in the US still. Right now, you can buy the TE's and FightStick Pro's for $100 US or less around tournament times at the Mad Catz website and certainly gently used, like-new condition MC joysticks for $80! It's hard to justify $175 US for the Atrox in the face of the existing competition.
(NOTE: US prices-only. I know they're never that cheap in Europe, and usually not much less in Asia, too.)
As it is, it's very late in the game for anyone to launch a new PS3 or XBox360 controller. Yes, hardcore fighting gamers will buy a new joystick but these companies also have to look at the greater numbers of gamers. That greater number is going to be migrating to the new consoles this fall and winter, over the next year... (Makes no sense to me, personally, but I'm not about to tell people what to do with their money.)
Nobody can reasonably ignore either hardcore gamers, focused groups (FGC crowd), or the general public. You do that at your own risk and you will get burned.
Prime example in point =>
It's very possible that this is the last generation Nintendo will produce a home console because they screwed far too many really general "don't know that they're thinking at the moment/just DUMB" people who bought the Wii. (These are the same dummies that buy "M-rated" games for their kids in spite of warning by gamestore clerks. Their kids love them for buying them GTA on the PS3 or XBox 360 despite the fact the little jerks shouldn't be playing that game but I'm sure those that got a Wii HATED their parents for buying that system, too!) The motion controls on that system were worth shit, IMHO. Lots of hard-core gamers HATED those controllers on top of the really shitty third party Betaware/tech demonstrator software titles that were sold in droves on the Wii. Nice party game gimmick but not revolutionary or even particularly good controllers... but obviously good enough to sell 99million even if only about 100 of the 1200 games made for the system were any good! Nintendo completely ignored its own QA standards to get SOME software out for the system and they're paying the price for that on the Wii U now.... which doesn't have very good third party support, EITHER... and only the absolute Nintendo-heads (50 of those guys left, now? I think there's more love for the 3DO now!) will buy the system software -- and only when Nintendo releases its own 5 or 6 software titles for the year!
The first party console vendors cannot ignore the hard core gaming crowd, yes, but you cannot be so focused on them that you blow off third party software support or do and say some really stupid things at press conferences that piss off gamers in general, too. SEGA sure learned that lesson. Nintendo's going through that, too, now, and unless a miracle happens or the company is really THAT stubborn, the Wii U has to be their last home console. I suspect they'll continue doing handheld game systems unless they get done by the Android/Nokia shit, but they've practically owned that market for years and have never as boneheaded with those and suffered the wrath of gamers like they have on the console systems.
(Well, there was Virtual Boy, yeah, but they killed all the vendors who TALKED about that system even the second AFTER it was pulled from shelves! To my mind, that was their worst move prior to the Wii/Wii U.)
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Sure, the FGC will continue on the PS3 and XBox 360 for maybe 3 more years but I'm saying this right now, most people are focused on the next systems whether that makes sense or not and a bunch of dummies have already traded in current systems for what in my opinion is still vaporware until you can hold and feel final product. I have seen the lists of launch games for the new entries, and, in all honesty, there's not much to chose. I already made up my mind to pass on the MS system for a third time in a row (I just hate Microsoft that much more than even Sony and I have my own Sony stories to tell!!!! It's NOT all love between Sony and me by any stretch; I have no use for Nintendo, period) but I have no use for a PS4 until probably next year. I saw maybe one game in a listing I read today that actually looked interesting to me.... There is so, so much I still want to buy for my PS3 in addition to at least one back-up PS3 system!
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FIRST PS4 ARCADE STICK RELEASE????
Probably around the time the "Game of the Year Edition" for DC Heroes / Injustice Gods Among Us" gets released.
Shoryuken.com carried a story that the GOTY for this game would be released on PS4 and XBONE, too. Can't imagine that any self-respecting joystick vendor WOULDN'T release a PS4 joystick around that time.
It wouldn't take more than a PCB change to release a PS4 Tournament Edition joystick, would it?
Of course, being an earlier console release for the PS4/XBONE, does honestly think the game will be better than the PS3/XBox360 releases??? Be honest with yourself instead of being the obnoxious first kid on the block that has to own the new shiny toy...