GameCube controller

[BenKenobi88]

coasterlove said:
I don't understand how come Nintendo isn't making any new Gamecube controllers considering the popularity of the Wii and the fact that some people will still be playing their GC games on it. Also, throw in gmaes like Super Smash Bros Brawl that can use those controllers and it would seem like a no brainer to keep producing GC controllers. Maybe they could make a Wii controller that was built like a Wavebird but also featured rumble and even the speaker on it like the Wii Remote.

I don't understand how Brawl and other various Wii games can utilize the Gamecube controller (clearly it is possible to take the inputs given through the GC ports into a Wii game)...but Gamecube games cannot utilize wireless Wii controllers like the Classics (send the inputs from the Wii controllers to the GC ports...something along those lines). It would have been great if Nintendo made a Classic controller with rumble and bigger analog shoulder buttons...thus making it GC compatible...I guess it's a hardware compatibility issue though.

There is the Thrustmaster third party controller in the wild, I saw it at Circuit City yesterday. It looks like a 360 controller, it has 4 shoulder buttons (R1, R2, L1, L2), rumble, full GC and VC support it says, plus the buttons on the right are SNES layout, not GC layout, and the joysticks are close like a DualShock layout...the D-pad is the main input. It's exactly what I want...except that it seems a little bit too small, and I'm guessing it might not be reliable enough...plus the D-pad doesn't look quality-enough. Also, I'm wondering how GC games would actually work, since many GC games require a very large, sensitive analog shoulder button, and those buttons don't even appear to be analog.

I might buy one for the heck of it, they're only $20.