If there’s anything that some folks find off putting with modern arcade stick parts, it’s the loud racket they can make when under heavy use; playing on them late at night in a small house or apartment complex while other people are sleeping is pretty much a no go. Never fear however as Sanwa has apparently heard about the issue and are supposedly developing a set of quiet sticks and buttons.

A sample bundle of the parts is now availailable at the Sanwa Denshi Rakuten Shop. The bundle includes one prototype quiet stick and 8 prototype quiet buttons. List price for the samples is ¥4,830 (~$62 USD), which is about the usual price for these sample bundles. We assume that the parts will retail for less once they go into full production.

Source Sanwa via SRK Tech Talk.