Nintendo's N64 controller for Switch is back in stock - The Verge

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Update November 28th, 7:19PM ET: Nintendo has sold retired of N64 controllers astatine this time.

Call it a Cyber Monday occurrence if you will, but the authoritative N64 controller for the Nintendo Switch has conscionable been restocked astatine the Nintendo eShop. This $49.99 controller allows you to acquisition N64 games the mode they were meant to beryllium played — with a large grey controller that has an awkwardly placed cardinal analog stick. This connection is exclusive to the Nintendo store and is lone disposable to acquisition if you’re a existent Nintendo Switch Online subscriber. (Note: you tin lone entree the N64 games with the acquisition of the Switch Online Expansion Pack.)

Unlike immoderate restocks for the Xbox Series X oregon PlayStation 5, the method for purchasing this controller is precise straightforward. Just motion successful to your Nintendo account, click “add to cart,” and transverse your fingers. Stocks of this controller spell remarkably fast, truthful don’t beryllium amazed if you spot them go unavailable successful abbreviated order.

For the uninitiated, Nintendo Switch Online is indispensable for accessing the online components of a fig of titles, including Splatoon 3, Minecraft, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, conscionable to sanction a few. As an added bonus, a rank besides includes entree to classical NES and SNES titles, too. An yearly subscription to this work lone costs $19.99; however, to entree Nintendo’s online room of N64 titles, you’ll person to subscribe to the Expansion Pack arsenic well, which costs $49.99.

This rerelease of the N64 controller is mostly what you’ll retrieve from the archetypal console, with immoderate quality-of-life improvements. Wireless connectivity that’s rechargeable via USB-C and built-in rumble enactment assistance modernize this classical controller, but it retains the “classic” shape. While the wide signifier origin of the N64 controller remains divisive successful a modern context, the popularity of this controller is impervious that nostalgia volition triumph each time.

A banal  photograph  of the N64 controller for the Nintendo Switch

$50

A modern reimagining of the classical Nintendo 64 controller keeps the aforesaid signifier origin but includes modern conveniences similar wireless connectivity and built-in rumble support.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

$299

This vacation Switch bundle includes the modular mentation of Nintendo’s terrific handheld, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and a three-month subscription to Nintendo Switch Online.

$20

A premium online work for Nintendo Switch owners, allowing you to play online with friends and entree unreality saves successful summation to a slate of retro games released successful the NES and SNES eras.

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