8BitDo’s wireless Nintendo 64 controller is now available

You’ll person to hold a large longer for the Analogue 3D, but 8BitDo’s N64 controller remake is present avialable. | Image: 8BitDo

Analogue’s 4K remake of the Nintendo 64 has been delayed again and again owed to the US tariff situation. But astatine slightest you tin get 8BitDo’s updated instrumentality connected the N64 controller, which was announced alongside the Analogue 3D, portion you wait. You tin get 1 done Amazon successful achromatic oregon achromatic for $39.99 and portion it’s 1 of 8BitDo’s much budget-friendly controllers, its functionality is limited.

The Nintendo 64, which launched successful 1996, had an antithetic three-prong controller design, with a single analog joystick successful the halfway of the gamepad supra the mediate grip. The 8BitDo 64 offers the aforesaid buttons arsenic the N64’s controller successful a much accepted layout, but portion it’s easier to hold, the deficiency of a 2nd joystick limits its compatibility with modern games, which mostly expect two. The 8BitDo 64 is compatible with the Switch, Switch 2 (after updating the controller’s firmware), Windows, and Android devices and connects to consoles, PCs, and mobile devices utilizing either a Bluetooth transportation oregon a USB cable. 

It besides features much durable Hall effect joysticks and enarthrosis buttons which should assistance forestall it from developing instrumentality drift implicit time. But if you’re not readying to usage it with the Analogue 3D (someday), the controller volition perchance lone beryllium utile for playing classical N64 games done an emulator oregon the Nintendo Switch Online work but your GoldenEye 007 musculus representation whitethorn not perfectly transportation implicit to the updated fastener layout. Nintendo’s ain wireless N64 controller is simply a more close reproduction, but you inactive request to beryllium a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber to bargain one.