The Switch 2’s GameCube controller costs $64.99

Nintendo’s GameCube controller for the Switch 2 volition outgo $64.99, according to the controller’s listing connected the company’s website. The controller releases connected June 5th, the aforesaid time arsenic the Switch 2, but Nintendo volition beryllium making it disposable to bid up of that date.

Initially, the controller volition beryllium disposable to bargain from May 8th to May 12th to radical who person nonstop invitations from Nintendo to bargain a Switch 2, according to a footnote connected the controller’s listing. Starting May 13th, Nintendo volition connection it to radical who wage for a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Nintendo volition bounds purchases to 1 per Nintendo Account.

The controller looks precise akin to the archetypal GameCube one, but the Switch 2 mentation is wireless and has immoderate further buttons to lucifer what’s connected different Switch 2 controllers. It won’t enactment with each regular Switch 2 games, though; successful a connection to Polygon, Nintendo said that since the controller “doesn’t person each the buttons and features recovered successful different controllers that tin beryllium utilized with the Nintendo Switch 2 system, determination whitethorn beryllium immoderate issues erstwhile playing different games.”

For the Switch 2, Nintendo volition offer GameCube games arsenic portion of a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription. On the Switch 2’s motorboat date, the GameCube lineup volition see The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and Soulcalibur II. 

Update, April 24th: Added that Nintendo volition bounds to 1 controller per Nintendo Account.