Turn Your Switch Into A GameCube With This Gorgeous Controller Case

Be rubbish won't it? Of all the switch controllers I've used you can't beat the satisfy grip and official joy con. The quality just isn't there with unofficial stuff.

Not bad, though the US Amazon page lists it as unavailable/out of stock.

I don't understand the obsession with Gamecube controller style model.
I personally prefer PlayStation style controller with symmetrical analog buttons since it felt comfortable for me for my thumbs to navigate between analog buttons position at the bottom to the D-Pad on the top.

Well doesn't that look lovely. Shame they won't ship this to the UK

@Anti-Matter
While I understand why you prefer the symmetrical analog sticks and buttons, It's really hard for me to use those. As someone who plays Smash Bros. Semi-Competitively, my Thumbs are just registered to different buttons and sticks. The Gamecube and Switch Pro Controller are my preferred controllers, but you do you!

@Baler My Daemon X Machina HORI joycon are so much better than the standard. No wireless though.

Nintendo need to get the official ones back in stock. Managed to get one with Smash Wii U, but not been able to pick up another since.

Would just remind me of all the Gamecube games I cannot play such as F Zero GX, Eternal Darkness, the classic Resident Evils (2, 3, Veronica), Star Fox etc and make me sad so I'll stick with my Split Pad Pros.

Looks cool, but I doubt it'll be comfy to use.

sorry but, for me, switch controllers without wireless-bluetooth are useless

Very nice, very tempting but I have the Hori split pad pro which I really like.

They are just different colored buttons. Nothing like a real Gamecube controller.

@Aventurier I've got it my buttons stopped responding properly

@Anti-Matter I’m an Xbox guy just because of the controller layout, but have been replaying Horizon and God of War before I jump into the new ones and I’m starting to get comfortable w the PS controllers.

GameCube however, man, that thing melted in your hand for Nintendo first party games!!

No mention of the analogue shoulder buttons?!?!?

@Baler any controller is miles better than the joycons. There’s a reason everybody calls the joycons the worst Nintendo controller ever made

@Baler I think unofficial controllers can be pretty good, some are really fun to use even if they aren't as reliable

Looks interesting. Shame not available in the UK. But not expecting it to be ground breaking.
I'm perfectly fine with my Skyward Sword joycons and Skull & Co Neo Grip (very comfy)

This doesn't even have the GameCube style button cluster or octogates for the controller. This is a bafflingly awful GameCube experience for the switch and you can find a bunch of better ones just searching Amazon or aliexpress.

I got myself a pair of IINE Elite Joycons and at least, I can use them as a separate controller. The idea is nice (the joycons are definitely way too small for adults) and it looks good but there are better and cheaper alternatives. I chose the IINE ones but there are also the Nexigo and NXYI controllers that are basically the same.

"Whatever that N64 thing was"
We don't take kindly to folks speaking of the queen mother that way.

@Aventurier Yeah, I picked up two sets of the Daemon cons. The buttons are not as "crisp" I guess, but they're more responsive and the sticks are the perfect size.

@Baler quality isn't much better with the official joycons, between the terrible ergonomics, drift, and lack of dpad. I'll go with the split pad pro any day.

Like most Chinese accessories a lot of brands use this grip controller just in different colors... and honestly it's pretty good. The motors are insane also lol. If anything the outside triggers are the main weak spot out of them.

Not bad, but I'll wait until they actually make face buttons that are shaped like the GameCube's.

Don't say something is GameCube styled if you can't even be bothered with getting the button layout correct. If they make a revision 2 with the proper layout then yes, this company can have my money. I'd most likely buy three or four but until then, NOPE!

@Baler Joycons are fine if you've got tiny hands, for anyone else they're cramped and really uncomfortable. HORI products are the absolute best in my opinion. Both the grip and various controllers are excellent.

I think the point @Baler was making was the combination of the official Joy-Cons and the Satisfye grip, not the official Joy-Cons themselves and no grip, was the best option. I agree. The split-pad pro doesn't have rumble. Subjective of course, but no rumble = no better for me; I want rumble. The PlayStation controller is dumb, in my opinion, because of the level analog sticks, and also the non-intuitive buttons. "Square, circle, triangle, X?" Give me a break. Playing with shapes is for kindergarteners, nor gamers. Give me letters over shapes any day, A, B, X, Y, preferably arranged Nintendo style because that's the original. Most people credit Xbox with creating the first offset analog stick controller but in fact the GameCube did as it came out 6 months before the original Xbox.
On topic, this controller grip looks cool but does it have rumble?

cool- all these gamecube controllers for the switch are cool- but 100% pointless without the Gamecube catalog to play-

@RupeeClock yeah without the octagonal gate this is pointless. I want an octagonal gate on my Switch so bad.

@Baler - I disagree, I needed filler for the Joycons to fit my hands right. Even moreso trying to hold it upright when leaning back or playing just before bed.

The Hori controller has been consistently proven the best so far for this situation.

@Debo626 @Paraka that's exactly what I meant. Satisfy grip and joy con are the best. I've wasted so much time and money looking for something better but it just doesn't exist yet.

@Paraka Doesn't it bother you not having rumble though? That's the deal-breaker for me with Hori.

@Baler - I have not found a joycon "filler" adaptation I have enjoyed, namely because of my latter part of my comment. The leaning back play and needing to hold the system up fails with so many of them.

@Debo626 - If I am playing portably, I am willing to forgo rumble over control of my system.

@BananaMetallurgica why would it need Bluetooth when it's for handheld

@Baler
Agreed. I use my original Satisfye grip every day. I even bought the Chinese versions of the split-pad, but hardly use them. I am kinda interested in this if it gives the best of both worlds.

The BinBok (or Nyxi) joycons are fantastic. Like the Hori split pad, but with rumble and Bluetooth wireless. I decided to go this route when I got my OLED instead of buying another Satisfye grip. Both options are excellent.

@Toshiro_Baloney junk. I've got both and both aren't up to standard. Nyxi was disgusting cheap plastic. One had stronger rumble than the other they also kept disconnecting and I think the right one was loose on the switch and left was really tight oh and also the d-pad was faulty. The split pad lacks functions and the a,b,x,y buttons are really mushy and mine stopped registering button presses after a while

@Debo626 haha I've always had issues with the PlayStation triangle square etc rubbish. Illogical isn't it

The entire appeal of the Gamecube controller is it's button layout, without that you just got a really poor right analog stick.

The Gamecube already needed a Game Boy Player to be an actual cube. This needs a whole Gamecube to remotely represent anything that could arguably be understandably mistaken for a cube.

But that's just a silly remark on the "turn your Switch into a Gamecube" line. More serious though, a Gamecube controller without a massive A button, bean shaped x and y, analog trigger with the most awesome click at the end, and the overall slim looks and ergonomics of the whole, is no longer a Gamecube controller. You can't distill a whole individual complicated (even in its simplicity) concept to just its colour, as we can all agree on, I would assume. Not even when we're talking about something as silly and of as little impact on anyone's life and without life of its own as a device with buttons to interact with a makebelief image of a made up world inside our makebelief imagery broadcast receptor boxes in our "living rooms". Or something like that.

@Corvus96 maybe you didn't read the part where i wrote "for me". i use my switch on tv and in tablet mode. only for 1% in handheld mode so...it's useful for me

@Baler what's even more stupid is that we in the west cross what we want and circle what we don't, on our playstation controllers. If we circled what we wanted and crossed what we didn't, the layout would be the same as with A for Accept/Attack/Advance/Accelerate... and B for Block/Back/Brake/Bullsh... Well maybe not the last.

@Toshiro_Baloney I've thought about getting those BinBok controllers. Nice to hear they're a good investment and experience. A concern I have with those is the lack of a case to transport Switch plus those attached. I've heard/read good things though.
@Baler the PlayStation controller is garbage imho, just for the button IDs, if nothing else. Plus they're definitely made for a smaller hand. The only controller that I've ever liked that had level analog sticks was the Wii U Pro Controller. I enjoyed the paradigm of analog sticks forward, D-pad and face buttons back. I'd've been ok with Nintendo making that layout long term.

@Baler How long ago did you get yours? They've made several updates since first being released.

I have none of the issues you mention with mine. I've only had them for about a month.

I'm seeing some complaints about the controller lacking the Gamecube's button layout and like bubala have you PLAYED any non-GameCube/Smash Bros. game with that layout? I have and immediately regretted it ever since.

“Before the Wii U Pro Controller and the Switch Pro Controller, the general consensus amongst Nintendo fans was that the GameCube controller was, in fact, the very best“

The Wii U Pro Controller is quite possibly the absolute worst controller Nintendo have ever produced, that abomination was complete garbage. No other major company has put face buttons underneath the right stick for a reason… what a waste of money that was.

@Toshiro_Baloney probably a year ago now. I wouldn't risk another purchase

@Toshiro_Baloney shady business too as they wouldn't give me my money back

@Marioman2022
@Anti-Matter

it's a compromise:
stick in primary location : terrible dpad :: parallel sticks : possible good dpad.

if you need a good dpad, you need it to be in the primary location. if you don't, the dpad is basically a "hat switch" to you and you stick it off to the side for picking weapons or calling up a map or com.

Ollie, your opinions about controllers are both ahistorical and irritating, and near irrelevant to the topic at hand. good work. 👍

edit - ok I'll back it up:

"Granted¹, when compared to what came before it - the safe, yet dependable NES² and SNES³ controllers and uh... whatever that N64⁴ thing was - the GameCube⁵ controller didn't need to do a whole lot to come out on top"

1) "Granted" is when you are making a statement of fact.
2) NES was the first console controller with a real dpad. 🤯
3) SNES was the first controller to have both the universal standard 4 button "diamond" fire buttons AND the first to have shoulder buttons, both of which are on every contenders' (copiers) controllers EVER SINCE. 🤯
4) the N64 controller introduced the analog thumbstick and "rumble" force feedback to gaming. so.
5) the GameCube controller had to do something to differentiate itself from 15 years of total controller revolution, (almost) completely thanks to Nintendo's own efforts. AND IT DID.

everyone has been playing catch-up to Nintendo the entire time. the only things they didn't do first are twin analog (psx) and analog triggers (dc,) both of which were evolutions of ideas Nintendo came up with.

thank you.

@-wc-
I have different gaming experiences from using gaming controllers.
Since I played a lot Dance Dance Revolution games on PS2, the PlayStation style controller is a perfect model to play as the D-Pad and the action buttons (Square Triangle Circle Cross) are very identical with Dance Dance Revolution panel model so my thumbs can navigate quickly like my legs stepping on the dancing pad.

Meanwhile, the Gamecube controller model is not the right model to play Dance Dance Revolution games as the action command buttons placement (A B X Y) don't even like DDR panel model so my right thumb cannot navigate like stepping on real DDR panel position since the placement of A B X Y command for Gamecube controller are different than PlayStation style controller.
Also, the D-Pad for Gamecube itself is too small for me for my left thumbs to navigate quickly while playing DDR games.

@Anti-Matter

right, but what about games that aren't DDR ? 😅

edit - I'm mostly having fun with you, here. I know you were making a specific point about button layouts and certain games.

in a sense, a snes controller is perfect for DDR, right? and the psx controller is just an expansion of that.

as someone else said, the gamecube controller happens to be perfect for smash bros, for example, and therefore it's the only controller I really want to use for that game.

I love the new paradigm of a variety of controllers and high quality 3rd party makers. my pro con, sn30 pro, and m80 cover the entire gamut for joypads, all I need now is an arcade stick, a wheel, and a flight yoke 👍

edit 2 - I did have a decent GC style powera controller but it died prematurely. does anyone have a suggestion for a GameCube controller for switch that isn't the 8bitdo dongle?

No, that looks nothing like a GameCube controller outside of the color. Why would you want a big plastic thing that goes around the switch instead of two joycons? I'd suggest people look up shanks mods GameCube joycons to see how this should look.