Yesterday afternoon a batch of Nintendo 64 controllers for Switch went up on some European Nintendo stores including the UK, and if you did try to purchase them yesterday you were likely met with one of two outcomes:
**\[A\] Successfully added item to cart and successfully purchased.**
**\[B\] Unable to add to cart at all, eventually being met with the message** [**’You reached the maximum quantity allowed for this product.’**](https://i.ibb.co/pfXr5f6/Screenshot-2022-10-21-144955.png) **regardless of if you’ve ever purchased a Nintendo 64 controller before.**
I was one of those in group **\[B\]**, a friend of mine fell into group **\[A\]** able to successfully order the controllers multiple times that afternoon. The only difference between the two of us was that I had a standard Switch Online membership, and he has a Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership.
Since then I have been asking in as many threads across social media as I can find, and the overwhelming majority of responses has come back the same:
**If you have an Expansion Pack membership, you could purchase the controller no problem. If you have a standard Switch Online membership, you weren’t even able to add it to your cart.**
For clarity I have only ever purchased one Nintendo 64 controller from the store previously, and have never had the Expansion Pack membership. As I understood it, an Expansion Pack membership has never been required to purchase either the Nintendo 64, or Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive controllers. Whether this is a gross technical issue, or a new purchase restriction, it’s something I felt the need to address, and something Nintendo themselves also need to clarify. These are already hard enough products to attain.
by TheLimeyLemmon
7 Comments
I get the logic but that sucks. Could totally understand not wanting to shell out that extra money without the controller first.
With how much trouble they’ve had keeping these in stock over the past year, I kinda get why they’d start restricting it to people who are actually subbed at the tier that has N64/Genesis games.
Kinda sucks for people that want one for, like, PC stuff or would want to wait until they have a controller to pay for the more expensive tier, but from Nintendo’s perspective I can see why they’d want to prioritize getting them into the hands of confirmed Expansion Pack subscribers.
I am waiting until I have the controller before I get the expansion so I really hope this isn’t the case.
Yeah it should have been like this from the start.
I mean what are you going to do without the expansion pack anyway?
They should make it where if you commit to the expansion for a year you get an access code to order the controller. Make it easier for the people who actually want to use it
The more shenanigans Nintendo pulls with this kind of crap, the less I want the controllers. Don’t jerk me around, sell it or don’t sell it. Don’t make me be in some special club to be able to buy.
It was always required?