Japan is getting the six button Mega Drive controller for Nintendo Switch Online • Eurogamer.net

As exposed during last night’s Nintendo Immediate, N64 and Mega Generate game titles are eventually heading to Nintendo Swap On the internet, and they will be accompanied by actual physical controllers inspired by each platforms. Around in Japan, Nintendo also confirmed Mega Drive’s substantially-liked six button pad variant will be offered for buy, but only in Japan.

Mega Drive’s 6 button controller introduced back in 1993 to coincide with the launch of Street Fighter 2: Unique Champion Version and would inevitably be supported by above 60 games. Still regardless of its enduring level of popularity all around the world – in particular between battling game supporters – Sega and Nintendo have opted to make Switch’s rendition of the six button pad unique to Japan. Everywhere else will get the 3 button primary.

This isn’t really the first time Sega has denied western audience 6-button Mega Generate goodness, of class accurately the exact same factor took place with the launch of its dinky Mega Travel Mini back 2019 to the disappointment of some, with almost everywhere but Japan having to make do with the three-button pad – Sega presumably reckoning (both of those then and now) the authentic offered the most nostalgia benefit for the the greater part of western Mega Drive fans.

Nintendo’s freshly introduced retro controllers, which will be accessible to invest in at £39.99/€49.99/$49.99 apiece, are supposed to provide a far more reliable taking part in expertise when N64 and Mega Push game titles appear to Switch as section of a new premium Nintendo Switch On the net subscription tier arriving in Oct.

9 N64 games will be offered at start – Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Star Fox 64, Yoshi’s Story, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Tennis, Dr Mario 6, WinBack: Covert Operations, and Sin & Punishment – with selected titles set to contain on the internet play. You will find at the moment some issue these may perhaps be the inferior 50Hz editions above listed here based on final night’s Europe-focused Nintendo Immediate, but Nintendo at present is just not stating both way.

More than on the Mega Travel facet, launch will bring 14 titles to Swap Online, together with Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage 2, Shining Power, Shinobi 3, Gunstar Heroes, Ristar, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with far more to follow. And if it can be any consolation, none of the at this time announced Mega Push titles at first supported the six button controller anyway.