"We’ve updated this article to note that Nintendo has made similar disclaimers with its previous retro controllers, which have ended up working with other Switch games. While this is no confirmation that the same will be the case with the GameCube controller, it does at least provide some hope that it won’t be as locked-off as Nintendo says."

Well at least they got their clicks.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The headline is not misleading in any way. That's exactly what Nintendo said.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's somewhat misleading. It's not providing the additional background information, and it leads the headline with the claim (not that Nintendo is making a claim).

I don't think it's a bad headline. It'd be hard to include all the information in the headline. But if someone only reads the headline (something like 73% of people), they could end up with a mistaken conclusion. And those people will have been lead in that direction (so, mislead).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think it would be bad form to put their speculation on the headline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

To clarify, I don't think the writers did anything wrong. The headline will be misleading because Nintendo's being somewhat misleading.

I don't know how much the headline could be improved, if at all.

Nintendo says NS2 GC controller will only "officially" support GC games

Or if they can't quote "officially", they could quote "only". Which could arguably be more clickbaity, but also clue in a casual reader that there's more to what Nintendo officially says.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

I genuinely can't tell if milking outrage is more prominent in gaming than elsewhere. I guess not, because... I mean, look at the planet in general, but it does feel like gamers got to that state of mind first and do it best, at least.