{"id":2623,"date":"2024-07-25T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:28:49","slug":"famicom-controllers-for-switch-are-now-up-for-general-sale-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/25\/famicom-controllers-for-switch-are-now-up-for-general-sale-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Famicom Controllers For Switch Are Now Up For General Sale In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Switch Online membership no longer required.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just recently, we reported on the newly announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/07\/nintendo-announces-official-switch-joy-con-charging-stand\">Official Joy-Con Charging Stand<\/a> for the Switch (which is totally to allow users to charge their Joy-Con when used as additional controllers with the &#8216;Switch 2&#8217; &#8211; wait, where are our tinfoil hats?). Amid all the initial confusion, however, we happened to miss another little nugget that might be of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has announced that the Famicom controllers for Switch, which were previously exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online members, are now available for general sale (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/2024\/07\/19\/finally-nintendo-japan-expands-switch-8-bit-controller-sales-to-everybody-online-member-or-not\/\">Sora News<\/a>). In other words, then, folks in Japan can purchase a set even if they&#8217;re not a Switch Online member.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/07\/famicom-controllers-for-switch-are-now-up-for-general-sale-in-japan\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switch Online membership no longer required. Just recently, we reported on the newly announced Official Joy-Con Charging Stand for the Switch (which is totally to allow users to charge their Joy-Con when used as additional controllers with the &#8216;Switch 2&#8217; &#8211; wait, where are our tinfoil hats?). Amid all the initial confusion, however, we happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}