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Nintendo to Re-release White Gamecube Controller in Japan

by Nick DiMola - April 10, 2008, 5:58 pm EDT
Total comments: 11 Source: Nintendo

Controller to release sometime this month.

According to Nintendo’s Japanese website, a White Gamecube Controller is due out this month in Japan. The controller will be released at a 2,000 Yen (approximately $20) price point. The cord will now be three meters long, 50% greater than the length of the original GameCube controllers.

Currently the Gamecube controller is used for a variety of functions on Wii. These functions range from playing Gamecube games on Wii, use in select Wii games, and use with downloaded Virtual Console games. Advertising for games such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart has flaunted the compatibility of the games with many different control schemes, including the GameCube controller.

There is no word of release in other territories at this time, or any mention of a re-release of the wireless Gamecube controller, the Wavebird.

Talkback

I hope we see this come out in America.
I really do...

KnowsNothingApril 10, 2008

The longer cord is nice, but the wavebird is the greatest controller EVER.  IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME.

EnnerApril 10, 2008

Ah, I wish I had a Wavebird.

Still, nice of Nintendo to make some more GCN controllers.

ShyGuyApril 10, 2008

I could use an extra cube controller.

walkingdead2April 11, 2008

i thought they lost the mold...? or was that just the wavebird.

UncleBobRichard Cook, Guest ContributorApril 11, 2008

Wavebird, from what I was told.  And they didn't lose it, they destroyed it. :(

PopeRealApril 11, 2008

Even though I have five 1st party GC controllers (all different colors, including 1 WaveBird), I still want this.  Call me milked.

Ian SaneApril 11, 2008

I need new controllers badly.  I only have three and they each have some slight problem with them.  The analog sticks on the two corded ones aren't tight anymore and are always going in one direction ever so slightly.  The Wavebird is doing a little better but it's got problems too.  One major one is that the battery "door" keeps falling off.  One of my brother's most irritating and stupid habits is to play with those things.  Usually it's on TV remotes but he does it on the Wavebird too and sure enough now it's f*cked, just like how many of our TV remotes are.

Anyway I want Wavebirds and I honestly don't consider "but we destroydered teh m0ldz" as a valid excuse.  Then take an existing Wavebird and use it to make NEW MOLDS!!  And this time don't destroy them, dumbass. ;)

I will settle for these if they release them here though.  Still longer cord?  You sh!theads destroy the Wavebird molds and then you DRAW ATTENTION to that by making the cords longer?  If the cords are too short making them longer is not an acceptable solution when you already gave us wireless controllers years ago.  Why don't you just re-release a Gameboy with colour overlays while you're at it?

MaverickApril 11, 2008

Well ideally I would want a wireless/rumble combo the same size as the original GC controller that was Wii white and connected directly to the Wii without a dongle. 

Seeing as Nintendo hates me and will never make that I would gladly settle for matching white GC controllers with a long enough cord to actually reach my couch.

tiamat1990April 14, 2008

Omg!!! This is awesome! Are controllers region free? Because I am importing these babies if they are!

RABicleApril 14, 2008

Controllers are region free.

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