A new My Nintendo listing on the European version of the site has revealed that users of the service will soon be able to redeem vouchers towards the recently revealed NES controllers for use with Nintendo Switch Online.
If you've missed the news, these new controllers are designed to work specifically with the new Nintendo Entertainment System portion of the Switch Online service, which offers a library of classic NES games for your enjoyment (if you're a paying member, of course). You get two controllers in a box, and the standard price is currently set at a pretty hefty $59.99.
If you're hoping to save some of your lovely moolah - and just so happen to live in one of the lucky, chosen regions - then these vouchers are definitely for you. With £1, £3, and £5 - or €1, €3, and €5 - variants available, the vouchers can only be spent towards these controllers (although orders for the controllers are still yet to go live). Here are the links and info you need:
UK
- My Nintendo Store Voucher (1 GBP) for NES controller
- My Nintendo Store Voucher (3 GBP) for NES controller
- My Nintendo Store Voucher (5 GBP) for NES controller
The link to purchase the controllers themselves (and where you'll be able to redeem your vouchers) is here. Bear in mind that the link is not currently accessible, and is expected to go live as soon as orders become available. Keep checking back and trying this link if you're desperate to get your hands on them.
Europe
It would appear that other European territories all have their own unique links (we had some success accessing the Portuguese page for the vouchers here). Make sure to log in to your account on the My Nintendo website for your region, and navigate to the 'news' section to find them.
As mentioned above, these controllers can only be purchased by those who have signed up to the Nintendo Switch Online service - if you're not planning on purchasing a subscription, make sure you don't treat yourself to one of these vouchers as you won't be able to spend them anyway.
For those of you in North America, it would seem that these vouchers are not currently available in any form. Pre-orders for the controllers have gone live in your region, however, and you can check them out right here.
Do you plan on getting yourself a pair of these controllers? Or are you happy enough simply playing with your Joy-Con? Let us know below.
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Or buy an 8bitdo Controller that works with all Pro Controller compatible Switch titles. Like seriously.
When this hits my eshop I will jump in.
Had I been able to play other eShop or simpler titles with them I would have jumped at it. But not for just the NES titles. In fact I’m in no rush to sign up for the service just yet as have other priorities.
Buy 8bitdo usb receiver!!!
I can save myself 100% by not buying them.
If you experienced those corners on the original NES controllers the first time around, that stabbed into the inside of your palm and wore away the cartillage in your fingers, you'd know they weren't lovely.
On the plus side you can get a blue badge for your car after you've used them for a while.
The UK link to buy the controllers (https://mynintendostore.nintendo.co.uk) doesnt work because there is no mynintendo store for the UK.
Well done My Nintendo, another failure.
Thing is when they do go on sale, I'm going to have to buy them as they will sell out because of scalpers.
I want these. I don’t want these. I really want these. Waste of money. Hmmm. Argh!
I think I'll pick the best savings of 59.99 by not buying this fecal matter in the form of plastic rectangles.
Cya
Raziel-chan
@BensonUii Only this whole NES/Famicom Switch Controllers thing is a complete debacle with requiring you to be an online subscriber to even purchase them, and even then they only work on the NES games, and only when detached from the console.
The Famicom controllers are so faithful to the original that the second controller doesn't have a start button, I wonder if the microphone on it works.
@RupeeClock I’m hopeful that moving forward to Switch 2 and beyond these controllers will continue to be supported and be the best most authentic way to experience NESwitch games. Eternal optimist here. Thing is when the SNES (and hopefully GC) controllers arrive we’ll have piles of plastic to keep the cardboard company.
Not while there is a hole in my a$$ !!
$60 for controllers that only work with 30 year old NES games and a current fully paid up subscription and suddenly become useless when your not paid up ??
Are Nintendo conducting a test to see just how insane some of its customers are?
Watch out for the free SNES games that will appear online ( when the NES controllers are milked sufficiently ) and the $60 SNES online only switch controllers will appear. Madness.
This is great a whole 5 pounds of the controllers if you convert your 500 gold coins. I won’t get it tho.
I must be missing something. 500 points = £5 anyway. Every single thing I've ever tried to buy off eShop asks if I want to use (any amount of) Gold Points to off-set the cost.... so when buying these is that option suddenly disabled? And instead you can only used fixed numbers of points? I don't see the point (pun intended).
For everyone suggesting 8bitdo, they don't dock or charge from the switch so they are a nonstarter.
For anyone planning on taking their switch out of their house, believe it or not people do that, the NES controllers are a better solution.
$60 is the cost of one game. It's not a big deal.
These are bluetooth controllers. They can still be used with other bluetooth devices when the service ends.
@StevenG
Or you could save $60 and use the joycons that came with your $300 console.
Bluetooth controllers that can be useless with the console they were made for BUT work on other devices....Madness
These controllers should have been bundled with a retail NES compilation for Switch.
This is just plain idiotic.
I’ve got a NES mini already and with the PlayStation mini on the horizon I’ll have to pass.
Pre-ordered mine!
Haha.
That's all I have to say about these controllers.
Enough of all this region-locking B.S. - Switch is supposed to be region-free. So if My Nintendo can already be used towards Nintendo Switch Online memberships, then they should also offer the ability to use those pretty much useless Gold Coins to put towards these controllers if people want them.
@StevenG Actually for people who are going out of their house with their Switch (I am one of those people for my daily commute), the Joy Con are the better, more universal option. Because then you can play any game in handheld or table top modes whereas these NES controllers do not work while attached to the Switch and only work with the NES games.
@DarthFoxMcCloud OMG is that true that they dont work while docked to the tablet ?
I didn't know this.....thats even worse.
i found a glitch in the site that allows you too order as many pairs of these controllers as you want.
however, it is not worth the effort since i only have one system and am not interested in getting more than one pair of these controllers; assuming that i will be getting a pair of these controllers. besides, the service needs more games before these controllers are worth the purchase.
@RupeeClock The nes style 8bitdo controllers have notoriously horrible dpads. Playing Contra was a nightmare with them. Plus the A and B buttons are off axis, not really getting a replica of an NES.
That being said I ordered the NES DIY kit. Hopefully the dpad issues are fixed there. They fixed them in the sn30 pro.
@Tim_Vreeland I've not tried their NES styled controllers, but their SF30 Pro is a fantastic controller, as was their SFC 30.
@Grogan Been pretty widely reported and the Nintendo website even states these controllers only connect to the Switch to charge. That's it. You have to remove them from the Switch to use wirelessly, and only for NES games on the Switch, they are not compatible with any other games on the system, and they are not compatible with any other device.
The vouchers are a good idea if I have to import it (reducing the cost below the limit for import taxation).
Worth noting that these vouchers don't even cover the cost of delivery (£5.96 I was charged, which is a bit of a scam).
So how many lovely silver coins turn into gold ones? people are just gonna rack these controllers..... shame.
@DarthFoxMcCloud Did Nintendo say somewhere that they won't work with other devices, I didn't see that? I was assuming they would work with PC, like every other wireless controller Nintendo has put out with a Bluetooth sync button.
WARNING for anyone who is tempted by redeeming for the money-off vouchers!!
I cashed in for a £5 voucher for the NES controllers; however after a week of trying, the second Nintendo store which is the only place to be able to order these controllers will STILL not allow me to enter my correct address (despite the usual store being OK for the last decade!)
As I can't enter my full address and it is likely the controllers would therefore go missing, I reluctantly had to ask Nintendo Customer Service to refund the £5 voucher. THEY HAVE REFUSED.
A rude 'customer service' guy refused point blank saying that as it is a reward scheme they won't and don't have to refund the £5 back to me. I'm awaiting a callback from his manager as there was no-one else in the building that I could speak with - as the guy couldn;t even give me a likelihood of when the callback would be, I'm not expecting this.
I've been a NIntendo fan since buying the first NES and Gameboy consoles, after 30 years I expect a tiny bit of customer service from them when they can't reliably deliver a controller to my address because their own website is so screwed up and launched without any testing.
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