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

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

As spotted by Polygon, nan institution went astir each successful connected nan metallic facelift for its SN30 Pro gamepad, pinch nan D-pad, action buttons, enarthrosis triggers, and moreover 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 while nan original SNES gamepad was conscionable 79 grams) but it besides whitethorn beryllium durable capable to outlive your different gaming hardware — and perchance moreover you.

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