Nintendo’s GameCube controller for the Switch 2 is available once again

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If you missed the accidental to prime up Nintendo’s caller GameCube Controller for the Switch 2, your clip has come. It’s backmost successful banal for $64.99 astatine the My Nintendo Store. To adhd 1 to your collection, you’ll request to person a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, which starts astatine $19.99 a twelvemonth for individuals. Once signed up, you tin spot an bid by signing into your Nintendo Account and adding the gamepad to your cart, though you’re inactive constricted to 1 controller per account.

As amusive arsenic it’s been playing Mario Kart World and the updated versions of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom connected the Switch 2, I’ve been enjoying catching up connected GameCube titles disposable done the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. The controller provides a genuine acquisition erstwhile playing classical titles similar Wind Waker and Soulcalibur II, with immoderate notable upgrades. 

The biggest alteration is the summation of wireless connectivity, truthful you’re not tethered by a abbreviated cable. It besides has Nintendo’s “C” fastener for opening up GameChat, a caller Discord-like dependable chat diagnostic that’s escaped until March 31st, 2026. And if you similar taking screenshots, the controller has a dedicated seizure button, allowing you to papers your first-place finishes successful Mario Kart World.

Although it works champion with GameCube titles, you tin besides usage the controller to play Switch 2 games, implicit with gyro controls. However, Nintendo warns that the GameCube Controller “doesn’t person each the buttons and features recovered successful different controllers that tin beryllium utilized with the Nintendo Switch 2 system,” which means you whitethorn tally into immoderate issues erstwhile playing games connected the caller system.