Going together with today’s declaration of the pricing for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, Nintendo has unfolded pre-orders for the Nintendo sixty four and Sega Genesis gamepads. The Expansion Pack, of course, permits gamers to play traditional N64 and Sega Genesis video games, so love it did whilst it added NES and SNES video games, Nintendo is freeing Switch-like minded controllers so gamers can get greater of an proper revel in gambling the ones titles.
Sadly, plainly the proper revel in goes to fee greater for N64 and Genesis than it did for SNES and NES. The N64 and Genesis controllers are priced at $49.ninety nine each – a steep charge to pay while you recall that the NES controllers run $59.ninety nine for a couple and the SNES controllers are $29.ninety nine each.
Neither the Genesis nor the N64 controller capabilities a rail to slip into the Switch’s Joy-Con connector because the NES controllers do. Instead, they’re charged the use of USB-C, similar to the SNES controller. One exciting component to observe is that the N64 gamepad has rumble aid built-in, so in N64 video games that supported the console’s Rumble Pak, you’ll get that functionality.
These controllers are full-sized, so it must be like the use of the actual component. Unfortunately, right here withinside the US, we’re getting the traditional 3-button controller for the Sega Genesis. While the 6-button controller is taken into consideration to be the higher choice, that in the long run isn’t the only Nintendo determined to go along with for this release.
Both controllers are going up for pre-order today, and just like the NES and SNES controllers that got here earlier than these, the N64 and Genesis controllers can simplest be ordered via way of means of people with an lively Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Customers are restricted to 4 controllers consistent with account, and orders will start transport out on October 25th – the identical day Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack launches.