Get your pinches of salt on the prepared, people, as a result of it is time for extra Nintendo hearsay dialogue.
In a break from ordinary proceedings, this one is not about ‘Swap 2’ (no less than, not fully). As a substitute, the newest hypothesis is targeted on the GameCube controller and the way it would possibly, would possibly, be making a comeback.
This comes from a current Resetera thread (by way of a hidden one on Famiboards), the place person RandomlyRandom67 goes into part shipments that they imagine are for ‘Swap 2’ manufacturing and different Nintendo merchandise. And sure, a type of “different Nintendo merchandise” is, naturally, a GameCube controller.
Now, rumours of a “new” GameCube pad (for Nintendo Swap On-line, more than likely) have been doing the rounds for some time — notably flagged by dataminer LuigiBlood earlier this 12 months — however RandomlyRandom67’s current put up suggests the controller is now in energetic manufacturing. That is because of shipments of rumble motor TRW1230 (put together for lots of codes like this) and its attachment to the mysterious HGU0480 undertaking, which is believed to be an upcoming controller of some kind.
Based on the Resetera put up, TRW1230 is similar rumble motor that’s presently utilized in GameCube controllers and the identical one which seems within the NSO N64 pad (although, the put up claims, it is unlikely that this half order pertains to the pre-existing N64 mannequin).
There are a bunch of different elements listed within the cargo that RandomlyRandom67 speculates could possibly be a part of the GC pad revival, together with particular LED mild covers, set off covers, and extra. On prime of all this, the put up claims that elements used for the present GameCube controller (CFS8280, for these questioning) are “probably being reused as-is for the brand new controller”.
Naturally, it would not be a hearsay put up with out some speak of ‘Swap 2’, and the Resetera dialogue additionally appears to be like at different half shipments believed to be for the subsequent Nintendo console. Whereas the half portions seem like on the rise, the numbers recommend that they are not at mass manufacturing ranges simply but, probably suggesting {that a} ‘Swap 2’ launch may not be fairly as imminent as many people would love.
Element cargo data are a wise approach of what Nintendo could be engaged on and way more dependable than, “My uncle visited Japan and he stated there is a new controller coming.” Nevertheless, we would nonetheless take all the above with an acceptable quantity of salt in the intervening time.
Not that we might flip down the prospect to get an all-new GameCube controller in our fingers, after all. Final 12 months, the enduring pad (coupled with the WaveBird mannequin) landed joint-first place in our rundown of our favorite Nintendo controllers, becoming a member of the Swap Professional Controller in pole place. Whether or not this hearsay factors in direction of an upcoming NSO enlargement or only a new neat solution to play Smash Final, we’re in.