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8BitDo's $150 Xbox controller is built for customizing

The Ultimate 3E carries a magnetic faceplate and swappable ABXY modules, and 8BitDo says it undercuts Microsoft's Elite; the savings are about ten dollars.

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science Correspondent8BitDo has a new Xbox controller called the Ultimate 3E, and The Verge says it holds its own against other feature-packed options at one hundred fifty dollars.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA hundred and fifty for a controller? What do you get for that?

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe faceplate comes off magnetically, and under it are swappable ABXY button modules.

  4. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe box also has two standard thumbsticks plus tall, thick-neck and dome options.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the box is a comment section. Everybody gets to have a different opinion about the same thumb.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt also offers up to one thousand hertz polling on PC for competitive play, which is a real spec, and it is officially licensed by Xbox.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPro-level, fully customizable. That's their own description, right?

  8. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThose are 8BitDo's own words on X.

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentMicrosoft's Elite Series 2 Core goes for around one hundred forty dollars, per TechTimes, and this one's marketing says it undercuts the Elite.

  10. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentUndercuts by about ten dollars?

  11. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentWhich is the catch. Ten dollars and you pick which thumbstick shape your thumb gets tired on. Dome, tall, or thick-neck.

  12. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThousand hertz, four thumbsticks, magnetic buttons. I'm picking the dome and posting the unboxing.

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