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

[slimerancher@lemmy.world]

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.

[can@sh.itjust.works]

Initially. Still annoying but title is misleading.

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

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

[doctortofu@reddthat.com]

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...

[can@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[blackjam_alex@lemmy.world]

I wonder if the Mayflash GC adapter would work.

[thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com]

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.

[thethrilloftime@lemmy.ml]

I think you can buy it later. They still sell all the NES, SNES and N64 controllers on their website.

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

People are going to buy it anyway. There is no amount of abuse a Nintendo fanboy won’t endure.

[hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world]

• Periodically killing mods and fan projects
• going after palworld
• using last-gen hardware in their consoles
• never decreasing prices

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

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

[towardsthefuture@lemmy.zip]

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.

[abcde@lemmy.world]

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

[abcde@lemmy.world]

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

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

I don't need it to play Smash with friends on the couch.

Really I shouldn't need the subscription for GC ports either. What's wrong with making them individual purchases like on the 3DS? (Answer: that's not monthly recurring revenue.)

[armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world]

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

[shawn1122@lemm.ee]

They must enter a unique switch serial number (that corresponds with inventory) to make the purchase? Don't see why it has to be contigent on a subscription.

[carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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:

• killing emulation projects
• patenting basic gameplay elements
• sued a man so hard he was forced to pay them part of his income for the rest of his life
• charging full price for basic rereleases

and for a few older ones, just to show that they’ve been shitty this whole time, actually:

• attempting to kill game cheating devices (like the game genie)
• preventing 3rd parties from releasing games on competitor’s consoles, essentially giving themselves a monopoly
• attempting to kill video game rentals

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Make enough of them that scalping isn't profitable.

[armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world]

That's a fine solution long term I guess, but things take time to be made.