The GameCube received positive reviews for its ergonomic controller, compact hardware, and exclusive software library, alongside criticism for its toy-like exterior and lack of multimedia capabilities and built-in online infrastructure. Although the hardware and software business remained profitable for Nintendo, lifetime sales reached 21.74million units worldwide, falling well short of the PlayStation 2 and trailing the Xbox while outselling the Dreamcast. Analysts attributed its third-place finish to a limited initial software lineup, weak third-party multiplatform support, the absence of DVD playback, and a brand image that skewed toward younger players during a period when older demographics drove industry growth.
In October 1997, following the resignation of Silicon Graphics (SGI) chief executive officer Ed McCracken, Nintendo reconsidered its hardware partnership with the company. Earlier in 1997, twenty former SGI engineers who had worked on the Nintendo 64's reality coprocessor founded the graphics hardware company ArtX under Wei Yen, who had previously led SGI's Nintendo Operations. In May 1998, ArtX partnered with Nintendo to design the system logic and graphics processor, codenamed "Flipper", for Nintendo's sixth-generation home console. Internal working names for the machine included N2000, Star Cube, and Nintendo Advance.
On May 12, 1999, prior to E3 1999, Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln publicly announced the console under the codename "Project Dolphin". Nintendo concurrently announced partnerships with IBM to manufacture the 486MHz PowerPC-based CPU, codenamed "Gekko", and with Matsushita Electric Industrial to develop the console's proprietary optical disc drive as well as a separate DVD-capable hardware variant. Nintendo subsequently distributed early development kits to studios including Rare and Retro Studios. In April 2000, ATI Technologies acquired ArtX, by which point the Flipper graphics chip design had already been substantially completed by the ArtX engineering team.
Nintendo unveiled the final console and its official name, the Nintendo GameCube, at a press conference in Chiba, Japan, on August 24, 2000, one day before Space World 2000. While the system was abbreviated as "GC" and occasionally "NGC" in Japan, Nintendo of America filed United States trademark applications for "NGC" on September 6, 2000, and for "GCN" on November 10, 2000, before Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa issued an internal memorandum on October 20, 2000 designating "GCN" as the only approved abbreviation in the Western Hemisphere and Europe. During development, Nintendo also patented early motion-sensing controller prototypes that Factor 5 tested with its launch software, although Nintendo shelved the concept until the Wii Remote several years later.
Prior to the GameCube's launch, Nintendo concentrated resources on the release of the Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld and shifted several projects originally planned for the Nintendo 64 to the GameCube while designing cross-platform connectivity between the two systems via a link cable. At E3 2001, Nintendo showcased fifteen launch-window games under the marketing tagline "The Nintendo Difference", led by Luigi's Mansion and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. With Super Mario Sunshine still in development for 2002, the GameCube became the first Nintendo home console since the Famicom to launch without a Super Mario platformer. Subsequent television commercials used the slogan "Born to Play" and concluded with an animation of a rotating cube forming the system's logo accompanied by a whispered voice saying "GameCube". On May 21, 2001, Nintendo announced a North American launch price of US$199, undercutting both the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox by $100, and backed the launch with a $76million marketing campaign.
Internal company presentations surfaced in the September 2020 Nintendo data leak revealed that Nintendo later explored concepts for a portable GameCube model with a built-in screen that could connect to a television dock, foreshadowing the hybrid design of the Nintendo Switch. The documents also outlined an unbuilt high-definition successor codenamed "Tako", developed alongside ATI with SD card and memory card slots for a projected 2005 launch, before Nintendo pivoted to the motion-controlled "Revolution" project that became the Wii.
Release
The GameCube launched in Japan on September 14, 2001, with approximately 500,000 consoles shipped to retailers alongside three launch games: Luigi's Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm, and Super Monkey Ball. Nintendo originally scheduled the North American launch for November 5, 2001, but pushed the date back nearly two weeks to November 18 so factories could supply over 700,000 units alongside twelve launch titles.
In Europe, the GameCube launched on May 3, 2002, accompanied by twenty launch titles and a last-minute price reduction from €249 to €199 (£129 in the United Kingdom) following a rival price cut by Microsoft on the Xbox. The Australian release followed on May 17, 2002. In Brazil, Gradiente distributed a localized console revision (model DOL-002) that launched on August 23, 2002, for R$1,200 alongside six games. The console subsequently launched in Taiwan on November 21, 2002, and in South Korea on December 14, 2002. Whereas previous Nintendo consoles had been distributed in South Korea by Hyundai Electronics under the Comboy brand, the GameCube was distributed by Daewon C.I., which also handled the Game Boy Advance in the country.
Market share
Throughout the sixth generation, GameCube hardware sales remained far behind the PlayStation 2 and competed closely with the Xbox for second place. Many third-party games popular with teenagers and adults, such as the Grand Theft Auto series and several major first-person shooters, bypassed the GameCube in favor of the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Industry analysts observed that while Nintendo's family-friendly reputation differentiated its first-party library, it also limited the console's appeal at a time when older demographics represented the fastest-growing segment of the video game market.
By June 2003, the GameCube held a 13% global market share, tied with the Xbox and trailing the PlayStation 2's 60% share. After Nintendo reduced the console's North American retail price to $99.99 in September 2003, weekly hardware sales quadrupled in the United States and the system's North American market share rose from 19% to 37% during the 2003 holiday season. A corresponding European price cut in October 2003, combined with bundles and releases such as Mario Kart: Double Dash and Pokémon Colosseum, lifted the GameCube's European market share to 32% by mid-2004, driven primarily by sales in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Although the GameCube never matched the profitability of the PlayStation 2 or the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo generated a net profit on the platform overall, contrasting with Microsoft's heavy financial losses on the original Xbox.
Discontinuation
Nintendo launched the GameCube's successor, the Wii, in North America on November 19, 2006, and in Japan, Australia, and Europe the following month. Several first-party projects originally developed for the GameCube were either shifted exclusively to the Wii, such as Super Paper Mario and Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, or released on both platforms, such as The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. In February 2007, Nintendo confirmed that hardware manufacturing and first-party software development for the GameCube had ended as the company focused production on the Wii and the Nintendo DS. The final licensed game released for the console in North America was Madden NFL 08 on August 14, 2007.
Nintendo technical director Howard Cheng stated that the company's primary engineering goal was to adopt a clean RISC architecture that would minimize development bottlenecks and keep hardware costs low. ArtX vice president Greg Buchner noted that the hardware team spent three years consulting with Nintendo of America and software studios to design a developer-centric architecture that delivered high performance without requiring complex programming workarounds.
The console's central processing unit is the Gekko, a custom 32-bit IBMPowerPC microprocessor based on the PowerPC 750CXe and fabricated on a 180nm CMOS process with copper interconnects. Running at 486MHz (1,125DMIPS), Gekko contains 64KB of L1 cache (32KB instruction and 32KB data, half of which can be locked as a fast scratchpad for direct memory access) and 256KB of on-die L2 cache. Its 64-bit floating-point unit incorporates roughly 50 custom SIMD "paired singles" instructions tailored for 3D geometry and lighting calculations, yielding a CPU floating-point throughput of 1.9GFLOPS and a system-wide peak of 10.5GFLOPS. Gekko communicates with the system's northbridge over a 64-bit, 162MHz front-side bus with a peak bandwidth of 1.3GB/s.
The ArtX-designed ATI "Flipper" ASIC, clocked at 162MHz on an 180nm NECeDRAM process, integrates the graphics processor, northbridge, I/O controller, and audio processor on a single die. Flipper contains 3MB of embedded MoSys1T-SRAM split between a 2MB framebuffer/Z-buffer (7.8GB/s bandwidth) and a 1MB texture cache (10.4GB/s bandwidth), both operating at latencies under 6.2nanoseconds. The console features 43MB of total non-unified RAM: in addition to the 3MB of embedded 1T-SRAM on Flipper, the motherboard includes 24MB of external 1T-SRAM main system memory running at 324MHz across a 64-bit bus (2.6GB/s bandwidth) and 16MB of 81MHz DRAM serving as an auxiliary buffer for audio and optical drive data. Flipper integrates a custom 81MHz Macronix 16-bit digital signal processor capable of processing 64 simultaneous ADPCM audio channels at a 48kHz sampling rate. On April 22, 2002, Factor 5 and Dolby Laboratories released the MusyX 3D audio software development kit for the console, enabling real-time motion-based surround sound encoded in Dolby Pro Logic II.
Storage and memory cards
Memory Card 59
Following earlier cartridge-complementing magnetic and optical experiments such as the Famicom Disk System, SNES-CD, and 64DD, the GameCube became Nintendo's first console to rely exclusively on optical discs for primary retail distribution. The proprietary 8cm GameCube Game Disc, developed by Matsushita based on the MiniDVD standard, operates in constant angular velocity mode at transfer rates of 16 to 25Mbit/s and holds up to 1.5GB of data. Nintendo chose the smaller format to combat software piracy through a proprietary copy-protection scheme rather than the standard Content Scramble System used on commercial DVDs, to avoid paying DVD Forum licensing fees for movie playback, and to reduce disc access times. While 1.5GB accommodated most software, certain content-heavy games required two discs, higher video compression, or trimmed audio compared to the 4.7GB single-layer and 8.5GB dual-layer standard DVDs used by the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Because the console contains no internal non-volatile storage for game saves, players must insert a proprietary Memory Card into one of the two front memory card slots to record progress, with save files measured in 8KB "blocks". Nintendo released three official capacities coded by casing color: the gray Memory Card 59 (512KB or 4Mb), the black Memory Card 251 (2MB or 16Mb), and the white Memory Card 1019 (8MB or 64Mb), alongside higher-capacity cards manufactured by third-party companies. Official GameCube game cases include a molded interior clip above the disc hub to store a memory card.
Measuring 150×161×110mm (5.9×6.3×4.3in), the GameCube has a cube-shaped shell with a rear carrying handle, four front controller ports, two memory card slots, and three top buttons for Power, Reset, and opening the top-loading disc lid. The console launched in "Indigo" (the signature color featured in Nintendo's branding) and "Jet Black". A "Spice" orange console launched in Japan in late 2001, though other territories received only the Spice orange controller, and a silver "Platinum" edition was released worldwide in late 2002. Several limited-edition themed consoles were also produced, such as a North American Platinum bundle featuring a custom Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness faceplate in 2005.
The GameCube is the first Nintendo home console to include a built-in system menu and an internal battery-backed real-time clock. Players access the menu by powering on the console without a Game Disc inserted or by holding down the A button on Controller 1 during boot-up. The menu presents a rotating 3D cube whose faces are selected by tilting the analog stick in four directions: tilting up boots the inserted game, tilting right accesses the internal date and time settings, tilting down opens the Memory Card manager to view, copy, move, or erase save data blocks, and tilting left opens the Options screen for mono or stereo audio, screen position adjustment, and system language. The boot sequence includes two hidden audio Easter eggs triggered by holding down the Z button on Controller 1 (replacing the startup xylophone chime with squeaks and a child's laugh) or on all four connected controllers simultaneously (playing a traditional Japanese percussion cadence). Furthermore, when the ambient background music of the main system menu is sped up 16 times, it plays the startup fanfare of the 1986 Famicom Disk System.
Original DOL-001 consoles feature both an "Analog AV Out" port and a "Digital AV Out" port on the rear panel. The Analog AV Out port uses the same multi-out connector introduced on the Super NES and Nintendo 64, outputting 480i composite video and S-Video on NTSC consoles or 576i composite and RGB SCART video on PAL consoles, while always carrying analog stereo audio. The Digital AV Out port supports component cables (sold exclusively through Nintendo's online store in North America and at retail in Japan) and Japanese D-Terminal cables, which contain a custom digital-to-analog converter chip to enable 480p progressive scan output. In compatible NTSC titles, players activate 480p progressive scan by holding down the B button during game boot-up, while in PAL releases the same command activates a 60Hz "PAL60" display mode. The GameCube hardware also contains built-in circuitry for stereoscopic 3D output, which was tested in Luigi's Mansion, but Nintendo never released the required liquid-crystal display accessory because 3D-capable displays were prohibitively expensive at the time.
Panasonic Q
The Panasonic Q integrates a front-loading DVD player with GameCube hardware.
As part of Matsushita's May 1999 optical drive agreement with Nintendo, Matsushita developed the Panasonic Q (model SL-GC10), an officially licensed hybrid system combining GameCube hardware with a commercial DVD and CD player. Encased in a mirrored stainless steel chassis with a front-loading motorized disc tray, a backlit LCD screen, optical digital audio output, and top-mounted playback controls, the Panasonic Q launched exclusively in Japan on December 14, 2001, at ¥39,800, after Panasonic confirmed in November 2001 that it had no plans for a North American release. Because its bottom feet obstructed the standard Game Boy Player, Panasonic released a specialized Game Boy Player attachment (model SH-GB10-H) tailored to the Q's chassis. Despite a price cut in July 2002 following reductions on the standard GameCube, the Q's high price relative to buying a standard console and a standalone DVD player resulted in low sales, and Panasonic discontinued the unit in December 2003.
Technical specs
In May 2004, Nintendo introduced a cost-reduced hardware revision designated model DOL-101. After determining that fewer than one percent of owners used progressive scan output, Nintendo removed the Digital AV Out port from the rear of the DOL-101. The DOL-101 revision also removed the unused Serial Port 2 expansion bay from the underside of the console, replaced the removable circular nameplate on the disc lid with a fixed nameplate, and paired the unit with a 48-watt AC adapter in place of the original 46-watt adapter.
40 million polygons/sec, with fogging, Z-buffering, alpha blending and Gouraud shading
30 million polygons/sec, with fogging, Z-buffering, alpha blending and texture mapping
25 million polygons/sec, with fogging, Z-buffering, alpha blending, texture mapping and lighting
6-12 million polygons/sec, assuming actual game conditions, with complex models, fully textured, fully lit, etc.
16-stage TEV fixed-function texture combiner unit (4 inputs, 1 output)
Indirect texturing unit with 4 dedicated stages using a 2x3 transformation matrix to scale and rotate texture coordinate offsets, enabling per-pixel effects like bump mapping and refraction
Departing from the three-pronged Nintendo 64 gamepad, Nintendo adopted a two-grip handlebar layout for the standard GameCube controller. The controller includes a built-in rumble motor, staggered dual analog sticks (a rubberized primary control stick on the upper left and a yellow "C-Stick" on the lower right that replaced the Nintendo 64's four C-buttons), a small directional pad identical in size to that of the original Game Boy Advance, a central Start/Pause button, and an asymmetric face-button cluster with a large green A button flanked by a red B button and kidney-shaped X and Y buttons. The shoulder inputs consist of a digital purple Z button on the right and dual hybrid L and R triggers that register progressive analog travel before clicking a digital contact at full depression. In June 2002, Nintendo launched the WaveBird Wireless Controller, the first radio-frequency wireless gamepad developed by a first-party console manufacturer, which runs on two AA batteries and communicates via a plug-in receiver dongle while omitting the rumble motor to conserve battery life. In June 2003, LodgeNet partnered with Nintendo to deploy on-demand GameCube games to North American hotel rooms through its Signeture TV system, utilizing a black, tamper-resistant hotel controller variant equipped with television menu navigation buttons.
Nintendo and third-party manufacturers released several specialized input peripherals and hardware attachments. The GameCube – Game Boy Advance link cable connects a GBA or e-Reader to a GameCube controller port to transfer unlockable content, download minigames, or use the handheld as a personal screen and controller in titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Released in 2003, the Game Boy Player attaches to the high-speed parallel port on the underside of the console and uses internal GBA hardware and a boot disc to play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and GBA cartridges on a television, providing an on-screen Z-button menu for display borders, screen sizing, filters, and controller mapping, although cartridges with built-in tilt sensors such as WarioWare: Twisted! and Yoshi Topsy-Turvy are awkward to use because they require tilting the console itself. Game-specific controllers include the DK Bongos (known as the TaruKonga in Japan), a pair of barrel-shaped drums with a Start/Pause button and an internal clap-detecting microphone used for the Donkey Konga series and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, the Nintendo GameCube Microphone, which plugs into a memory card slot to process voice commands in Mario Party 6, Mario Party 7, Karaoke Revolution Party, and Odama (which included a controller microphone clip), the Action Pad dance mat produced by Konami for Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, and the Japan-exclusive ASCII Keyboard Controller, which embeds a full keyboard inside an elongated GameCube controller shell and plugs into two controller ports for text chat in Phantasy Star Online.
Backward compatibility and emulation
Original Wii models (RVL-001) feature native hardware backward compatibility with all official GameCube Game Discs, memory cards, and controller-port peripherals via four built-in GameCube controller ports and two memory card slots beneath hinged top panels, including 480p progressive scan output over Wii component cables, although the Wii lacks the bottom expansion ports required for the Game Boy Player or the Broadband and Modem Adapters. Nintendo removed GameCube software and accessory support from the 2011 Wii Family Edition (RVL-101) and the 2012 Wii Mini. On June 5, 2025, Nintendo began re-releasing emulated GameCube titles through the Nintendo GameCube – Nintendo Classics application exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2 as part of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription tier. Outside of official hardware, GameCube games are widely emulated on personal computers and mobile devices using the open-source Dolphin emulator, first released in 2003.
To counter perceptions that its consoles catered exclusively to children, Nintendo published and courted several mature-rated and teen-oriented exclusives. Nintendo published Silicon Knights' psychological horror game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002), which achieved modest commercial sales but earned critical acclaim, and collaborated with Konami and Silicon Knights on Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (2004).
Third-party support
After high cartridge manufacturing costs on the Nintendo 64 drove many publishers to Sony's CD-based PlayStation during the 1990s, Nintendo designed the GameCube's optical disc format and development tools to win back third-party support. Longtime second-party partner Rare completed only one GameCube title, Star Fox Adventures (2002), before Microsoft acquired the studio in September 2002. To expand its software output, Nintendo commissioned external studios to develop entries in its own franchises, partnering with Sega's Amusement Vision on F-Zero GX, Namco on Donkey Konga and Star Fox: Assault, Treasure on Wario World, and Square Enix on Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.
Following the discontinuation of the Dreamcast in 2001, Sega became one of the most prolific third-party publishers on the GameCube, achieving strong commercial sales with Super Monkey Ball, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, Sonic Heroes, and Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II. Capcom also formed a close partnership with Nintendo, releasing the remake of Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero in 2002 before announcing the Capcom Five lineup in November 2002: P.N.03, Viewtiful Joe, Dead Phoenix (later cancelled), Killer7, and Resident Evil 4, though Capcom subsequently ported Viewtiful Joe, Killer7, and Resident Evil 4 to the PlayStation 2. Other notable third-party collaborations included Namco including Link from The Legend of Zelda as an exclusive guest fighter in the GameCube version of Soulcalibur II, and Electronic Arts incorporating Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach into the GameCube versions of NBA Street V3 and SSX on Tour. Major Western publishers including Electronic Arts, Activision, Ubisoft, THQ, and Midway Games supported the console through 2007, although several multiplatform titles sold fewer copies on the GameCube than on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, leading some studios to scale back support during the second half of the console's life.
A GameCube equipped with a Broadband Adapter and the Japan-exclusive ASCII Keyboard Controller for Phantasy Star Online.
Unlike Microsoft with Xbox Live and Sony with the PlayStation 2 Network Adaptor, Nintendo remained skeptical of consumer demand for subscription online console gaming and did not establish a unified first-party online network for the GameCube. Instead, network connectivity required purchasing the official Broadband Adapter or Modem Adapter, which were released in autumn 2002 and fit into Serial Port 1 on the underside of the console, while individual publishers managed their own servers.
Only eight GameCube titles officially supported network functionality. In Western territories, Internet play was limited to three Sega role-playing games: Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II, Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus, and Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution, whose official servers operated until 2007. Japan received two additional Internet-enabled titles: Chunsoft's cooperative role-playing game Homeland (which allowed a player's console to act as a host server for up to 35 other players) and Konami's Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 10, which supported downloadable roster updates. Three first-party racing games—Mario Kart: Double Dash, 1080° Avalanche, and Kirby Air Ride—supported local area network (LAN) multiplayer across up to eight linked consoles using the Broadband Adapter, which enthusiasts also routed over the Internet using PC tunneling software.
Reception
Critical reception
The GameCube received generally positive reviews from hardware critics at launch. PC Magazine praised the console's compact industrial design, fast loading times, and launch software quality. CNET highlighted the $199 launch price and the ergonomics of the controller while noting the lack of DVD playback and audio CD support compared to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Later hardware assessments frequently criticized the Indigo console's lunchbox-like handle and plastic casing as "toy-ish" in comparison to the home-theater styling of its rivals. Looking back at the console's commercial trajectory, Joystiq attributed the GameCube's market share struggles to software droughts during its first year and its sparse online support.
Sales
In Japan, consumers purchased between 280,000 and 300,000 GameCube units during its first three days on the market out of an initial shipment of 450,000 consoles. In North America, Nintendo generated over $100million in GameCube hardware and software revenue during its launch weekend and sold 600,000 consoles by early December 2001, with Luigi's Mansion, Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, and Wave Race: Blue Storm leading initial software sales.
Sales momentum slowed significantly in 2002 and early 2003. By March 31, 2003, worldwide hardware sales stood at 9.55million units, missing Nintendo's fiscal target of 10million. Faced with millions of unsold consoles in warehouse inventory, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata halted GameCube factory production for the first nine months of 2003. In the United Kingdom, retailer Dixons removed GameCube hardware and software from its stores in March 2003, while Argos slashed prices to clear stock before restocking the console in October 2003 after Nintendo cut the official retail price and bundled the console with The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition. During the same period, Acclaim Entertainment chief executive Rod Cousens publicly questioned the console's profitability in June 2003 prior to Acclaim's 2004 bankruptcy, and Eidos Interactive suspended GameCube development in September 2003 before returning to the platform following its 2005 acquisition by SCi Entertainment to publish Lego Star Wars: The Video Game and Tomb Raider: Legend.
Although Nintendo had projected lifetime sales of 50million consoles by 2005, the GameCube finished its commercial run with 21.74million hardware units and 208.57million software units sold worldwide, consisting of 12.94million consoles in the Americas, 4.04million in Japan, and 4.77million in Europe, Australia, and other regions. In sixth-generation console sales, it placed ahead of Sega's Dreamcast (9.13million), slightly behind Microsoft's Xbox (24million worldwide, though the GameCube outsold the Xbox in Japan), and far behind Sony's PlayStation 2 (over 155million). It also sold fewer units than its predecessor, the Nintendo 64 (32.93million), and remained Nintendo's lowest-selling major home console until the Wii U ended production in 2017 with 13.56million units sold. Despite its third-place hardware finish, the GameCube achieved a high software attach rate of 9.59 games per console.
Legacy
Many games and series that debuted on the GameCube—including Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion, Chibi-Robo!, and the Metroid Prime subseries—became enduring pillars of Nintendo's software catalog. In retrospective hardware rankings, IGN named the GameCube the 16th best video game console of all time in 2009, GamesRadar+ ranked it 11th in 2021, and Den of Geek ranked it 12th in 2023.
The GameCube controller has been officially supported across five generations of Nintendo home consoles, more than any other Nintendo gamepad. Following native controller ports on early Wii consoles (used in titles such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii), Nintendo released a four-port USB GameCube Controller Adapter alongside Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in 2014. System software update 4.0.0 for the Nintendo Switch in October 2017 enabled the USB adapter to recognize original GameCube controllers across compatible Switch software and specifically in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018), which was accompanied by a new production run of wired GameCube controllers. For the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 in June 2025, Nintendo maintained support for the USB adapter and released a new official wireless GameCube controller featuring a rechargeable battery, motion-sensing gyroscope controls, and extra system buttons designed for Nintendo GameCube – Nintendo Classics.
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