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Goodbye, GameCube Controller. It's Been Fun.

Like any Smash Bros. fan, I've taken in the news of a Wii U iteration with great joy. Look at the awesome new characters! No tripping? Hooray! It'll find a sweet spot between casual and hardcore play? Excellent! And yet, there's a tinge of melancholy about it all: the Wii U doesn't have a GameCube controller port.

BullyMangler4688d ago

goodbye gamecube controller? .. how else am I gonna play all the gamecube games that have HIGH re-play value?

how else am I gonna play smash bros brawL ? or the new smash etc etc . . poor fanboy articles.

NameRemoved00174688d ago

Use dolphin then you can run it at native 1080p at much higher quality with anti aliasing etc and use a 360 controler.

NameRemoved00174687d ago (Edited 4687d ago )

Lots of idiots on the internet so the gamecube looked better than this?

http://i.imgur.com/BbSQrZO....
http://i.imgur.com/wbEkq01....
http://i.imgur.com/M0OQVUY....
http://i.imgur.com/ZYUeAQ6....
http://i.imgur.com/Ot5tU4Q....
http://i.imgur.com/mEod9gn....

Notice for console gamers because this better than most of your games:
Mario is 4k HD texture
2k and 4k on some textures + enhanced textures
Hud is also 4k so it is very sharp
The game is rendered in native 1920x1080 on screen
The game is being ran internally at 2560x2112
Improved lighting
No jagged lines anywhere (16x CSAA)
16x Anisotropic Filtering

Go show it to someone they would probably think its a Super Mario Sunshine wiiu HD remake.

Hell you can even buy a usb to gamecube adapater and play it with that for like $5.

Know how powerful the machine has to be to run it at that quality? I'll let you guess.

Dubaman4687d ago (Edited 4687d ago )

All you did was ruin the art style, specifically the vibrant colours, of an already great looking game. HD this and Hi-res that don't mean diddly when compared to the importance of a games art style. Wind Waker for example, even though it is getting a HD remake, the original version still looks stunning today. Its aged better than the realistic looking Twilight Princess.

BullyMangler4687d ago

sounds good but the 360 controller over a gameCubes or a WaveBird? haa!

the button design and Heihgth of the 360 buttons are not designed to perfection like a Gamecube controller buttons look it up . FEEL the diff . . 360 D-pad = poop too < fact

but hey! Resi 1 Remake in H.D. 1080p dsnt sound bad at all . been thinking it be nice if nintendo did something with that Resi 1 remake like their doing to windWaker .. what then of the pLanet ? 0.0

NameRemoved00174687d ago

@Dubaman it doesn't "ruin the artstyle" if you don't like one of the textures you simple go delete it or don't use them at all. The main differences you are seeing being rendered at 2560x2112 and down scaled to 1080p.

Stock textures:
http://i.imgur.com/TzVaAfy....

HD Textures:
http://i.imgur.com/6gIY4cd....

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Qrphe4687d ago

Patricia Hernandez is the author, ignore it

PopRocks3594687d ago

On Amazon there's an adapter that lets the Gamecube replace the classic controller on Wii and Wii U.

kirbyu4687d ago

But the GC controller can be used on Wii, and used in most games the Classic Controller is, so what's the point?

PopRocks3594687d ago

The point is I personally feel a lot more comfortable with the GCN controller. So it's good to have the option.

jcnba284687d ago

Craptaku mustn't have known about this lol

MASTER_RAIDEN4687d ago

if you took the time to read the article you would see that theres nothing fanboy about what the author has to say. relax.

EveryPlatformGamer4687d ago (Edited 4687d ago )

no this is what nintendo needs to make and release, this would be a day 1 buy for me, and would be AWESOME!

3-4-54687d ago

You know about the Wii U GC controller connector right?

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ApolloTheBoss4688d ago

The Gamecube controller was one of my absolute favorites. The only issues with it were the uncomfortable L-R triggers, and the Z button was kinda unnecessary.

BozoLoco4687d ago

*says controller is their favourite
*points out three damning design flaws about it

ArtificiallyYours4687d ago

I liked the Gameboy Micro, but thought it focused on cosmetic gimmicks too much...

Fanboys wouldn't admit flaws with their 'favorite' system. Don't you agree?

H3ADWOUND814687d ago

My toaster died this morning too, RIP bob the toaster..

kirbyu4687d ago

The GC controller is so nostalgic for me. So's the GameCube itself. It and a hand-me-down SNES were my 1st consoles.

AznGaara4687d ago

I really can't imagine playing the new smash bros game without this and the placement of the buttons on the pro-controller are... Eh

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7718d ago (Edited 18d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer43d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi42d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer43d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot42d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box42d ago (Edited 42d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno42d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay42d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno41d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK41d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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