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  • I Miss the GameCube WaveBird, the Best Controller Nintendo Ever Made

    I Miss the GameCube WaveBird, the Best Controller Nintendo Ever Made

    The video game industry has more or less settled on a standard design for controllers with a pair of matching analogue joysticks, a directional pad, four action buttons, and shoulder triggers on top. It’s a design that the PlayStation DualShock controller popularised, but one that I genuinely feel Nintendo perfectly executed on the GameCube WaveBird…