If you, like a lot of British folk, bloody love video games and a cuppa, then Yorkshire Tea has created your perfect PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S controllers — though the price may make you boil over.
British tea brand Yorkshire Tea has brewed the pair of controllers in collaboration with "controller designer extraordinaire" POPeART, and is selling them for a steep £149.99 each (around $190).
This is more than double the standard price of a PS5 DualSense controller, which has a recommended retail price of £59.99, and the Official Xbox Series X and S Controller, which has a recommended retail price of £54.99.
Limited edition controllers are a different kettle of fish though, and these Yorkshire Tea gamepads certainly won't be available forever. The company didn't say exactly how many or for how long it will sell the special controllers, however, leaving fans to read the tea leaves and hope for the best.
"Picture the scene. You're facing down a boss with three heads and a hammer as big as a truck, armed with nothing but a rusty sword you looted from a guard," Yorkshire Tea proposed. "Gulping, you look down at the controller in your hands, wondering if victory is even possible. And you see it — the reassuring branding of your favourite tea. 'Yes', you say to yourself. 'I can do this'."
The PlayStation controller features the outer shell to match the actual tea's branding, with its iconic imagery of the Yorkshire Dales, while the logo sits upon the Touch Pad. The Xbox one features the Yorkshire Dales green on the left and the logo's red background on the right.
Microsoft is well-known for creating wild and wacky controllers, with Xbox Series X and S generation highlights including red and blue fluffy Sonic the Hedgehog gamepads, one made out of actual Jade, and even an edible gamepad.
Its more regular line of controllers including the sexy Gold Shadow, cosmic Stellar Shift, dusty Stormcloud Vapor, and even an Earth Day one made partly from recycled CDs, water jugs, and other Xbox controller parts.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
