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

The 8BitDo SN30 Pro Golden/Silver Limited Edition controllers floating against a backdrop of rocks.
Despite a $100 price tag, these 8BitDo gamepads don’t include any wireless functionality. | Image: 8BitDo

8BitDo’s shiny silver- and gold-finished 11th anniversary SN30 Pro gamepads feature housings and controls made of so much metal that they weigh in at 381 grams — almost an entire pound.

As spotted by Polygon, the company went nearly all in on the metal facelift for its SN30 Pro gamepad, with the D-pad, action buttons, shoulder triggers, and even joysticks all made of a metal “zinc-alloy material.”

Image: 8BitDo

The D-pad, ABXY buttons, joysticks, and triggers are all metal on 8BitDo’s shiny new controllers.

This controller won’t just feel satisfyingly hefty in hand for its size (the beefy Xbox Duke controller weighed 425 grams while the original SNES gamepad was just 79 grams) but it also may be durable enough…

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