![]() ![]() ![]() My Wizard arrived just in time for the release of Metroid Prime: Remastered. The buttons and analog sticks are in the right place, but there are some key changes. Maybe it’s obvious, but the Nyxi Wizard’s most immediate strength is that it’s essentially a GameCube controller. It’s a GameCube controller in every way that matters I’ve been using it for the last month, and from where I’m standing, it’s the only way I’ll play any GameCube original on the go. It’s not a bull’s-eye by any means, but it hits in most of the right ways to make for an excellent portable way to play your favorite classics from Nintendo’s most adorable console while being just modern enough to work with newer Nintendo Switch games. The $70 Nyxi Wizard proposes to solve exactly this problem. There’s been a palpable absence, though, of a Joy-Con-like version that can strap to the sides of your Switch in handheld mode. Yet Nintendo never released its own GameCube-style Nintendo Switch controller in the US, instead leaving that to third-party manufacturers like PDP and PowerA, which each produced respectable one-piece, Switch-compatible gamepads in the spirit of the sublime original. With modern rereleases of several GameCube classics (and new games that demand that console’s controller layout), the design remains popular enough today that Nintendo itself released a four-port USB GameCube controller adapter just so people could play Super Smash Bros. The shoulder buttons nicely cradled your index fingers in their curve, and the grips were stubby yet somehow perfectly fit the crook of my fingers. controller in the era of the Nintendo Switch, its usefulness transcends that game, and any that makes heavy use of the A button, where you can quickly roll your thumb to all of the other buttons surrounding it. ![]() With a goofy button layout and near-perfect ergonomics, it was a charming, quirky input device that was, if you’ll forgive the hyperbole, transcendent. In the early aughts, somewhere around 20 years into the home console revolution, my favorite controller was released: the GameCube controller. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account ![]()
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