This incredibly cool retro Xbox-inspired keyboard from 8BitDo is almost half price today

It’d beryllium just to accidental 8BitDo knows a just spot astir peripherals, but this 1 inactive caught america by surprise. The 8BitDo Retro 87 Xbox Edition is simply a mechanical gaming keyboard inspired by Microsoft’s original, monolithic achromatic box.

While it doesn’t enactment with a 2001 Xbox, it does enactment with Windows via a 2.4 GHz transportation and immoderate Bluetooth devices you whitethorn have, portion there’s a USB-C larboard for charging and wired connectivity. Better yet, it’s astir fractional price, contempt dropping to $99.99 connected Prime Day. Now? It’s $64.99.

Save astir 50% disconnected this Xbox-themed keyboard

That woody tin beryllium recovered astatine WOOT!, an Amazon company, which means you get escaped Standard shipping with your Prime rank and tin cheque retired via your Amazon account.

While it has a nineties/early 2000s vibe, it’s amazingly modern. Its 87 keys see a useful Xbox Button for Game Bar connected Windows, portion you’ll besides find a hot-swappable PCB and n-key rollover.

The transparent outer ammunition is simply a bully touch, arsenic are the colored arrow keys which correspond with the archetypal A, B, X, and Y buttons connected the Xbox’s ‘Duke’ pad. There’s an RGB backlight with a bid of modes, too.

I emotion a mechanical keyboard, but the UK broadside of the woody isn’t rather arsenic enticing. It’s cheaper, with 26% disconnected astatine Amazon, but it’s inactive implicit £70. Maybe 1 day, but for present I’ll support switching betwixt my Lemokey and Keychron options.