Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console

can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I need a fucking online subscription to buy a controller???

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  • Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    At least it gives people who are using their switches a chance to buy one, instead of them selling out in seconds to a network of bot accounts before winding up on eBay for $300+ the following week.

    It’s not the perfect system, but I can understand why they are doing it.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I am using my Switch just fine without an online subscription. I guess Nintendo thinks I am using it wrong.

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      • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Right, but he sub is shareable and a pretty cheap barrier for entry… and required to play those GameCube games anyway.

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      • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Can you think of a better way to keep it mostly out of the hands of scalpers?

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      • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I mean, there’s plenty of reasons to not like Nintendo, but this whole thing is because the GameCube coming to their Online subscription. So I mean… it makes sense.

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  • doctortofu@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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…

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But you don’t have the sub (cheap when sharing a family pack) so you can’t play the N64 games anyway.

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      • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        How I can’t play N64 games without a subscription? 🏴‍☠️

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  • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.

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    • als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The new switch has a whole button that doesn’t work without a paid online subscription 🤪

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      • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Lemmy 24/7: “if its free, you’re the product”

        Lemmy on Nintendo: “Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I’m entirely justified in pirating everything.”

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  • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, it’s the same for their other classic controllers.

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• Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Does it make sense? Emulation is going to happen one way or another. If Nintendo sold a GC controller that is PC compatible, they’d at least make some money from those buyers.

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    • Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It will. But for the first run you don’t want people buying the console and paying for the switch GameCube access to have to ability to buy a GC controller. It’s like how for sports teams season ticket holders usually get some first access to buy playoff tickets.

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But… I want it for emulation… Any good reliable 3rd party out there?

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      PowerA did a good wireless one that also had a second Z button on the other side

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      NYXI Wizard maybe

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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well that got me all worked up for no reason, didn’t it.

  Thanks for the clarification.

  COME ON, OP!

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