- Backbone has teamed up with lifestyle brand Kith to release a limited edition Pro controller
- The new model features a transparent casing and arrives just in time for the annual Kithmas celebration.
- It launches on December 5.
Backbone has announced that it will be releasing a limited edition Backbone Pro controller in collaboration with lifestyle brand Kith.
For the fifth year in a row, Kithmas is back, and this Christmas, the company is celebrating by launching an exclusive, collaborative model of Backbone’s Pro controller, created specifically for mobile gaming.
“When we started Backbone, the idea was very simple: turn everyone’s phone into a console and bring gaming to everyone. Since then, gamers have turned mobile devices into the world’s largest gaming platform, and the smartphone has quietly become the next Xbox,” Backbone said. “But the identity of gaming culture hasn’t caught up. For too long, the default image has been the guy in a dark room, with RGB lights on, totally separated from the rest of the culture. We’ve never believed that story. We’ve always believed that gaming is for everyone, and that it should be right next to the things people already love: fashion, music, sports, movies.”
“That’s why this collaboration with Kith is so important to me. Kith has spent the last decade doing what we aspire to do in gaming: taking something people already love and elevating it with gusto. They blur the lines between streetwear, luxury, nostalgia and sports in a way that feels effortless and earned. Backbone’s entire thesis is similar: our goal is to build hardware, software and services as a unified system, so that playing games feels less like a complicated undertaking and more like something essential.”
Launching on December 5 at Kith, the limited edition Backbone Pro will feature a transparent casing that allows the gamepad circuitry to be seen, a design choice that Backbone calls “a metaphor for openness in a world of walled gardens and a way to highlight the craft while demystifying the technology.”
The Backbone Pro is one of the best mobile controllers on the market and offers Bluetooth connectivity that allows you to connect to a PC, laptop, tablet or smart TV for use with cloud gaming services such as Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia GeForce Now or Amazon Luna.
In TechRadar Gaming’s Backbone Pro review, game editor Dashiell Wood said the more expensive platform “offers several significant improvements over its predecessor, providing a much more comfortable mobile gaming experience without sacrificing portability.”
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