In another bullshit move by Nintendo this time around.

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

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        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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        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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          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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                unless you stumble on a brick, fall down and accidentally install a rp2040 on the switch, then accidentally flash picofly when trying to understand what’s going on

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

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      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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        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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          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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          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

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

      Thanks for the clarification.

      COME ON, OP!