8bitdo’s New Mini Xbox Controller Fits Gamers With Smaller Hands

8BitDo has announced an alternate type of its Ultimate C wired Xbox controller that’s 20 percent smaller and 10 percent lighter while still featuring full-sized triggers, joysticks, and buttons.

Although nan caller 8BitDo Ultimate Mini is designed for kids and teens, it will too entreaty to immoderate gamer pinch smaller hands who struggles pinch nan size and weight of modular controllers. At 189.6 grams it’s lighter than nan 287-gram Xbox Series S and X controllers (including batteries) and weighs small than half of “The Duke,” nan 550-gram wired controllers nan original Xbox shipped with. It’s disposable now successful nan US done Amazon for $34.99, arsenic bully arsenic 8BitDo’s online store.

The Ultimate Mini features nan aforesaid layout arsenic larger Xbox controllers but pinch action buttons, nan directional pad, and its drift-resistant magnetic Hall effect joysticks each positioned personification together. There are too Hall effect triggers connected nan back, connected pinch a brace of somewhat smaller enarthrosis buttons.

It comes pinch a white, pink, aliases greenish translucent shell, which makes a ringing of LEDs surrounding each joystick glow overmuch prominently. Called nan Fire Ring, location are different lighting modes that respond to various fastener presses pinch flashes, hit done different colors, aliases recreation nan guidance each joystick is being pushed.

The 8BitDo Ultimate Mini is compatible pinch nan Xbox One, Xbox Series S and X, and PCs moving Windows 10 aliases 11. There’s nary wireless connectivity which helps support nan controller lightweight without batteries inside. But parents pinch kids who are prone to rage-quitting games and throwing their controllers whitethorn want to deliberation doubly astir a gamepad that’s physically tethered to a console pinch nary breakaway connector.