GameCube Controller for Nintendo Switch 2 Is Finally Available for General Preorder in the UK

The Nintendo Store-exclusive controller is inactive being sold for £58.99 with escaped delivery, and has a caller fresh listing to bespeak its unfastened preorder status, alongside the caller Switch 2 amiibos.

But determination is inactive a flimsy yet overmuch smaller catch, for the GameCube controller astatine least. To beryllium qualified to acquisition the controller, though, you request to beryllium logged successful with an relationship that has a paid Nintendo Switch Online Membership.

While the hub leafage for the NS Online Membership does notation the work does person a 7-day proceedings disposable for those who person ne'er subscribed, it specifically states that said proceedings cannot beryllium utilized to acquisition classical controllers similar the caller GameCube version, arsenic good arsenic crippled vouchers.

Although this added regularisation does marque sense, arsenic it volition forestall galore scalpers and bots from buying up each the banal automatically, it besides unluckily means you'll person to enactment up immoderate other currency to bargain your caller Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller — if you're not a subordinate already.

Thankfully, the added outgo isn't excessively overmuch successful the expansive strategy of things. Available to bargain from the Nintendo Store, the Online Membership is disposable for arsenic debased arsenic £6.99 for 3 months.

To get the champion worth for your money, though, you tin walk £17.99 for a 12-month rank oregon £31.49 for a 12-month household rank respectively.

However, retailer ShopTo has deals connected each rank tier, which are inactive disposable to drawback close now. These see £5.85 for 3 months connected the idiosyncratic plan, £14.85 for 12 months, and £24.85 for the 12-month household plan.

The biggest and champion bargain of the clump though, is 35% disconnected the 12-month rank + Expansion Pack bundle—now lone £25.85 alternatively of £39.99.

While Nintendo has confirmed the GameCube Controller volition enactment with non-GameCube games, you volition necessitate some an NS Online rank and the Expansion Pack to entree the afloat classics postulation anyway.

So, if you were readying connected playing immoderate of the GameCube Classics coming to Nintendo Switch 2, you whitethorn arsenic good leap successful with this woody present and acceptable yourself up for the adjacent twelvemonth with a large £14.14 saving.

Ben Williams – IGN freelance contributor with implicit 10 years of acquisition covering gaming, tech, film, TV, and anime. Follow him connected Twitter/X @BenLevelTen.

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Apr 24, 2025 12:30 pm