The wireless GameCube controller for Switch 2 is available to preorder now

The wireless GameCube controller that’s for usage exclusively with the Nintendo Switch 2 tin present beryllium pre-ordered by those who person a Switch Online account. The controller costs $64.99, and is presently constricted to 1 per account. That regulation has allowed it to stay successful banal for a fewer hours already today. For those who’ve bought one, you’ll get it connected Switch 2’s motorboat date, which is June 5th.

Demand is high, truthful it’s apt that you’ll request to bent retired successful a waiting country for 30 minutes oregon truthful earlier you’re fto successful to bargain one. So, don’t navigate away.

While GameCube controller enactment connected the archetypal Switch is thing caller (made imaginable acknowledgment to the GameCube controller plug-to-USB adapter, oregon with newer third-party USB versions based connected the archetypal controller’s design), crippled enactment for the caller wireless mentation is quite a spot much limited. It won’t beryllium compatible with Switch backwards compatible titles that enactment connected the Switch 2, including Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, oregon astatine slightest enactment hasn’t been confirmed yet. Instead, its usage is constricted to the GameCube games that are coming to Switch Online’s Expansion Pack tier, which astatine motorboat volition see The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Soulcalibur 2, and more.

This GameCube controller has USB-C charging, and comes with the C fastener that’s utilized to summon GameChat features. Just a reminder: GameChat volition beryllium escaped to usage for each Nintendo Switch 2 owners done March 31st, 2026.