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

• Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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.)

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      • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Nintendo opting to forgo selling retro games piecemeal and instead expecting consumers to rent access to them in perpetuity is an anti-consumer move. I have no problem paying for games when they’re sold at affordable, reasonable prices, so until that’s the case for Nintendo’s library, better to just emulate as much of it as possible.

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    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        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.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Make enough of them that scalping isn’t profitable.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Put the onus on the retailer to limit how many units a single customer can purchase. Why would Nintendo give a single fuck about scalpers?

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    • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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.

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• doctortofu@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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…

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How I can’t play N64 games without a subscription? 🏴‍☠️

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      • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Because you need it to play them on Switch.

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• TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.

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  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The new switch has a whole button that doesn’t work without a paid online subscription 🤪

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    • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Lemmy 24/7: “if its free, you’re the product”

      Lemmy on Nintendo: “Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I’m entirely justified in pirating everything.”

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• FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes, it’s the same for their other classic controllers.

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