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Lol gimps trying to squeeze as much profit as they can get from the people
I can't buy any of their classic controllers here in Norway. Never understood why we were left out.
Bullshit. They are doing that to cause a fever of pre-orders in the US despite the tariffs. Within a year, they will be on shelves.
Or they will be worth their weight in gold like GameCube Component cables
Nintendo keeps shooting themselves in the foot. On one hand, as a PCMRer and massive fan of Valve, I'm glad to see how many are open to moving over here. On the other hand, Nintendo was the last console manufacturer I actually liked (despite their anti-emulation crusade) and so it's like a death of an era.
The future really is in console-like PCs a la the Steam Deck and Valve's upcoming Fremont.
Initially. Still annoying but title is misleading.
Lol yeah. It makes sense. You don't want your peripheral for the console to sell out to buyers that just want to use it for emulation.
But... I want it for emulation.... Any good reliable 3rd party out there?
NYXI Wizard maybe
Or search on Etsy for a refurbished controller and just use an adapter to connect it to PC. Though many sellers only sell Phob GCC. It’s a modded GC controller with a custom motherboard. It uses Hall Effect sensors so the sticks will never ever experience drift. It’s expensive though. Like here is a fancy one for $325 https://sagecustomcontrollers.com/products/phob-gcc
PowerA did a good wireless one that also had a second Z button on the other side
Well that got me all worked up for no reason, didn't it.
Thanks for the clarification.
COME ON, OP!
I need a fucking online subscription to buy a controller???
I mean, it's Nintendo - if there was a way to somehow automatically charge your card every time you say, hear or think the words "Nintendo", "Mario" and such, they'd do it without hesitation...
That's been standard for the switch retro controller releases. And yes it's been bullshit the entire time. I would have liked an N64 one.
But you don't have the sub (cheap when sharing a family pack) so you can't play the N64 games anyway.
How I can't play N64 games without a subscription? 🏴☠️
A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.
Remember, Nintendo tried to sue a grocery store in Costa Rica. Maybe don’t support them.
Remember Nintendo… please feel free to list the hundred other crappy things they did here.
using last-gen hardware in their consoles
I mean there’s nothing inherently wrong with that (if only they charged last-gen prices as well lol)
but anyways here’s a bunch more shit they’ve done:
and for a few older ones, just to show that they’ve been shitty this whole time, actually:
(also they’re partly owned by the saudi government, so, there’s that)
(and pls remember that, despite all of their shit, nintendo is far from the worst. it's a systemic problem, not an individualist one. remember that ubisoft covered up sexual assault for years and that microsoft is literally engaging in genocide. the problem is that capitalism lets these companies get away with it.)
I wouldn't go as far a stating that it's mainly a systemic problem. Individual choices also matter to some degree.
K. I'll just wait for the 8bitdo clone.
I’ve been waiting years for 8bitdo the make a fully functional clone and they haven’t yet.
The closest they've come is a retrofit electronics kit for the OG shell last year.
I wonder if the Mayflash GC adapter would work.
Nintendo is just dedicated to shooting themselves in the foot as hard as possible with this launch aren't they?
People are going to buy it anyway. There is no amount of abuse a Nintendo fanboy won’t endure.
You’re totally right
Average reaction of a Nintendo fanboy to abuse:
Step 1: this is expensive
Nintendo: kawaiiiiii
Step 2: shut up and take my money you cute souless overlord
Gross.
The Nintendo GameCube (GCN) Controller – Nintendo Classics will be exclusively available for Nintendo Switch Online members and will initially only be offered to those invited to pre-order a Nintendo Switch 2 console
Does this suggest I can buy it later or am I going to have to pay scalper price if I want it?
I think you can buy it later. They still sell all the NES, SNES and N64 controllers on their website.
I think you'll always need NSO sub if buying directly from Nintendo, but pre-order rule only seems to be because of scalpers, so that only those who can actually use it, buy it.