Nearly everything on 8BitDo’s hefty $100 gamepad is made of metal

8BitDo’s shiny silver- and gold-finished 11th day SN30 Pro gamepads diagnostic housings and controls made of truthful overmuch metallic that they measurement successful astatine 381 grams — astir an full pound.

As spotted by Polygon, the institution went astir each successful connected the metallic facelift for its SN30 Pro gamepad, with the D-pad, enactment buttons, enarthrosis triggers, and adjacent joysticks each made of a metallic “zinc-alloy material.”

This controller won’t conscionable consciousness satisfyingly hefty successful manus for its size (the beefy Xbox Duke controller weighed 425 grams portion the archetypal SNES gamepad was conscionable 79 grams) but it besides whitethorn beryllium durable capable to outlive your different gaming hardware — and perchance adjacent you.

But for $99.99, the limited-edition gamepad is lacking immoderate modern features. There’s nary notation of including Hall effect joysticks similar the $39.99 integrative mentation of the SN30 Pro, there’s nary wireless connectivity, and compatibility is constricted to lone the Nintendo Switch and Windows PCs. The colors should brace good with the caller “Hyrule Edition” Switch Lite, but you tin get so overmuch much for overmuch less.