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8BitDo - Unofficial Support Community
For official support please email 8BitDo at [email protected] | /r/8BitDo is an unofficial support community for controllers, receivers, mice, and internal controller board replacements made by the company 8BitDo. This subreddit is for users to help each other resolve controller/device issues, and is not run or affiliated with the company. This subreddit is not an official communication channel for the company, but will share public news that is posted elsewhere.
59k subscribers480 posts / mo in Sep 2026381 authors / mosince 2016
r/8bitdo has 59k members (+32% over the last 12 months). It gets about 480 posts a month from 381 people. Top topics: RetroControllers, Switch Controllers and Controller Repair.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- RetroControllers43%
- Switch Controllers3.8%
- Controller Repair2.6%
- Arcade Sticks2.5%
- Controller Issues2.1%
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Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- MakerWorld
- iFixit
- Printables
- Aliexpress
- Steamcommunity
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