 I just want to know what we're doing with it. Okay, so my original plan, which I have not admitted before, is I wanted to just... That's right, it's back in the studio, and in this video we're gonna see... The Linus Tech Tips crew reacts... to the solid gold Xbox controller. If you design electronics, or you're just looking for some new testing gear, register for Keysight University Live using the link in the description, and you can get a chance to win one of over a hundred ProGrade Test Gear prizes. What? I have to wear gloves? Yeah. Is it real gold? Yeah. Oh... I didn't know. Hahaha! Is this like actually because it's necessary? Yeah. Okay. The second that you touch it, the finish is ruined. Yeah, that makes sense. Oh, wow, what's this? Protective gloves. Protect my hand. It's covered by the new limited edition gold foil LTT shirt. Okay. You made that, right? Yeah, I did, I designed it. Oh! Oh! That's, uh... That's substantial. Oh, why is it so heavy? It's solid gold! Oh my gods! That is heavy! This is heavy! This is a weapon! Oh my god, the finish is actually really nice! Oh my god! I like that the back is like sort of grippy. That's smart. You definitely don't want to rage quit a game with this. Yeah, how much do you think it weighs? That's a probably good five pounds. Six pounds? Uh, like ten pounds? Okay, I do training, and my ten pound weight is a little bit heavier than this, so maybe like seven pounds, eight pounds? This is probably two kilogram? Like two, three pounds? Am I in the ballpark? Yeah, three pounds. Three pounds? Best one yet. Yeah. You know in your brain a kilogram is heavy, but yet when you hold it, like, you know? Jeez! It's got this weight to it. Get out of here! You're not allowed to see it yet. Brandon tried to see it. Is this actually gold? Yeah, it's actually gold. 18 karat. How much did this cost? You tell me, yeah. Uh, you're... I'm supposed to guess? Yeah, guess. I don't know what the gold price is. Four thousand dollars? About three thousand dollars? Four thousand dollars? Five thousand dollars? Forty thousand? Sixty thousand? Or was it more? Well, it costs at least like $69.99 US. Um... I guess that's actually quite close. What's the conversion on that? It actually is $69,000 US. You're $200 off. Wow. This costs a thousand dollars. Am I wrong? Bit higher. Five thousand dollars? Bit more than that. Stop. How much does this cost? Eighty seven thousand dollars. Holy s***! Why did we spend that much on this? For a YouTube video? For three YouTube videos. We're milking it. Oh, okay, good. Yeah, well, at least we're milking it. Why does this exist? What's heavier, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of fat decisions? Very funny. I have no idea what we're doing here. I have... Yes, you haven't filmed this whole video yet. I haven't filmed the whole rest of this video. Oh, how heavy is it, you ask? About three pounds, one ounce. Tastes like it's about $69,000 US. Oh, you need the clothes. Oh, oh, shhh. So what's the deal with the back? Is that like a design on purpose or was that due to the casting? Both. Both? Okay. Yeah, basically we couldn't keep the original texture because it would just die in polishing. Oh, okay. So we had to create one. Okay, so I will say the joysticks are fine. I'm not seeing any issues. That seems normal. The buttons seem totally normal. I do notice that the right trigger is definitely hard to push. Or the bumpers are hard to push, but the triggers are fine. Is that due to the controller? Yeah, they normally use plastic as the spring for those. Okay. All these shoulder buttons are... Yeah, they're a little rough. The triggers are good though. You can feel it kind of wobble, but at the same time, like it is smooth thanks to all the extra mass, you know? Yeah, I was concerned that the springs wouldn't be stiff enough, but they seem fine. Yeah, I think actually because the springs aren't too stiff, it's easier to start pulling the trigger. It's like pretty easy to feather it. Like the clack. The clack of these. Oh, I didn't even... I didn't even notice they made noise. Oh, that's satisfying. I really like that. Who knew that like a gold Xbox controller could be so cool? There's birds in this game. Oh, how are they going? Can I follow you? Where are you going? Where are you going? What are you doing? Oh, time to go. Why would you do that? It wasn't me. I'm out. It wasn't me. Hey, Carter. No, don't go back there. Don't go back. No, don't go back there. How's the rumble feel, do you think? Muted. It's like kind of like if you were a kid during the N64 days and you had like a third party rumble pack. I just feel like the whole thing is like shaking, but not very fast because it's just too heavy. It's subtle. The rumble is subtle. It's there. It's present. I'm feeling it. But these bumpers are awful. It feels like the rumble motor is trying. But there's way too much mass for it to make any effect. Mass effect. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. I don't have any grenades. I don't have any grenades. I don't know how to change weapons. My hands are fatigued already. No, I'm not even like joking. Like it's like mostly in here. Like just because you have to squeeze it so tight. Or not squeeze it so tight. It's just a completely different muscle movement, you know? Do you think it's a good workout for getting strong forearms? I mean, it's better than absolutely nothing. I don't know that I would pay five to six figures for the privilege. If you got this for free, but were not allowed to sell it, and it was the only controller you could use again, would you take it? You know what? I like Xbox controllers. I mean, maybe. I don't know if I would pay for a controller quite this extravagance. But if I'm not paying for it, then does that really matter? Also, you know, when you want to, you can do some weightlifting. Kind of keep yourself active while you game. OK, but what happens when the next generation of consoles comes out and then new controllers come out? Am I still not allowed to get those? You still keep using that. I still have to use this? Yeah. What if it's not backwards compatible? We can assume it's backwards compatible. OK. You're playing on PC, so like. Oh, yeah, OK. Yeah, I would take this. It's pretty nifty, as the kids say. And so what do you think would win, kickproof TV or that controller if you raged out? Oh, on sheer mass alone, mass plus velocity, force, this would destroy a TV. Even the kickproof TV, I think this would like, it would be destroyed in the process. But yeah, she'd go. Yeah, so where do you think this does land on the stupid or cool spectrum? There's an adage. If it's stupid, but it works, is it really stupid? And I mean, it works. I mean, the buttons just feel like regular Xbox buttons, because I guess you didn't really do anything to the PCP, right? Could have made the sticks gold. I guess the fact that I have to wear gamer gloves is pretty sick. You know, just to use the controller, it's like, put the gloves on. You're in for a treat. Other than that though, pretty dumb. I'm sorry. Pretty stupid. I mean, it feels fine. There's really nothing wrong with it. I mean, it's better than like, you know, that second player Mad Cat's controller that you get at a friend's house. I guess Linus, when you brought me this project, did you expect it to end like this? I didn't think it would be this good. Honestly, no offense, Alex, but I just didn't think that it would be this perfect, you know? It's pretty legit, I do have to say. Like, it looks fantastic. This is a piece of art. Like, no lie. The resolution of the gold, like I shouldn't be that surprised the jewelers did this, right? But like, seeing the stippling and the triggers is really interesting. And like, it came out incredibly good. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we're losing one. I gotta say though, for $87,000, this Alex... Wait, we need to laser weld it on. Should I wrap it back up in this t-shirt? Or am I supposed to be like, look at this t-shirt? Oh, you can if you want, you can pimp the merch. Cause like, I saw these in the creative warehouse and I was excited about them. I love any of the foil shirts that we have. And this one is really cool because like people who actually are like super LTT fans are gonna be like, I remember when you did that really cool project and I bought the t-shirt for it. Yeah. LTTstore.com. These might sell really quick, I don't know. The other foil shirts did. So... I think this is the thing you need to have if you are having a party at home, just to show off. Otherwise I don't think this will improve anything for gaming, but it's cool. Show this to your wife, she will kill you. I mean, it's not the stupidest thing I've ever spent your money on. Did everyone else think this was a really stupid thing to spend money on? It was a pretty split actually. Really? Yeah. Okay, that's surprising. Wow. It actually looked fake when I first took it out. How could anyone be so dumb as to cast one of these in gold? It must be fake. I just wanna know what we're doing with it. What? It seems like... What do you mean doing with it? Like look at it, it's cool. It looks fake. But... Like actually. Can we melt it down? What? You're done the videos now. Well, hold on a second. The total that we paid for is a kilogram of gold. So if we melt it all back down and sold the gold, then technically it doesn't cost anything, right? Yes. And you would have gotten your videos used and you don't know what you're doing with it anyway. Okay, so my original plan, which I have not admitted before, is I wanted to just keep it where I have my Xbox Elite controller, in my case on my desk. So I thought it would be just as good to use and it would be a little bit cool. Now, as it turns out, it's not as good to use, which is bad, but it's like way cooler than I thought it would be. Why is it way cooler? Can you at least take time to experience it properly? I am. Well, you still don't like it, so clearly you're not experiencing it properly. I don't think time is going to change that. So where do you think this lands on the stupid to cool spectrum? You know what? I think it's super cool if we get our money back. We've got three videos out of it. It's been built pretty hard. Exactly. So, and we get to milk it even more if we get to melt down the gold. There's GameStop and there's... This is way cooler than GameStop. Yeah. Okay, this is way cooler than GameStop. Yeah. But GameStop is setting the bar really, really low. That's being like, this is a better ROI than burning $50,000. Yeah, exactly. So my rating out of 10 is 10 if you melt it down. Okay. What's your rating if I keep it and just play with it? Okay, how about this? We make a deal. If you actually use this at least once a month for the next year, then you can keep it. But if you don't end up using it, then you have to melt it down. I shouldn't have to use it if I am going out somewhere where it could get stolen. Where do you go out to game? What are you talking about? Roasted. I mean, what would you guys prefer? Would you prefer we melt down the gold and spent the 100K on a wicked Christmas party or? Whoa, hold on a second. Don't involve them. Something else. Why not? Oh, it's disconnected now. The Bluetooth range is not as good as before. Craftsmanship. That's not because of that. It's because metal blocks the antenna. That's a tech tip. So that's you and Alex's craftsmanship. I wouldn't describe me or Alex as a craftsman. Wow. F**k you. How do I get it to reconnect? I don't, I think we're done here. Okay. All right. I think you should get rid of it, seriously. I shall consider your viewpoint. All right. Okay. Craftsmanship. This says sponsored dbrand, but the prompter doesn't say anything about dbrand. Let me take that from you. What's this? Give me that. All right Linus, can you do a segue to today's sponsor? Sure. This video was brought to you by dbrand, I guess, right? Yeah, it's dbrand. They sent you a package to unbox Linus. They got it on the table? Yeah, it's on the table. Come on, you can do it. Come on. I am assuming this is the bag of money that I asked to be included in the short circuit unboxing we did of their dark plates. What is, wait, is this a hundred f**king pounds of chocolate? Yes, it got delivered to my house and my pregnant wife had to receive it and then- It's a hundred pounds of golden chocolate loonies. Can I shower in them? So here's the weird part. That, there's a weird part. Yeah, the robots said that this is payment for the last video and that they talked to you already about this video. No. Then we probably got bamboozled. Colton. Ow, what's happening? Are you embezzling me? Is this chocolate? Cause I got a little message from Dbrand yesterday. Oh, there's actually money in there. This was like one of the most stressful projects that I've done in a really long time. It's so much money. Like if you screw it up, like, casting's hard. Casting's really hard. And although I'm sure that like, I knew that the jewelers after a couple of tries could definitely get this down. Like it's a one-off prototype and they don't normally do stuff this big. So I was genuinely concerned that it might just turn out like hot garbage or we would have to like, remelt a bunch of gold, buy a bunch more and like do a two or three times in order to get the result that we want. And it would just take forever. But I'm really impressed with how it turned out. It is fricking beautiful. Like after I saw the casting of this piece right here and it was just all pitted to hell up on the top, I was like, how are they going to manage to make this nice and smooth? But like, Henry absolutely killed it. I'm just gonna take it for a walk now. Yeah, I'll just, yeah. See you guys later. Yeah, how much do you think you get from that with the pawn shop? I don't know, but I'll.