My TV is about 10 feet back from the couch. This is not a good situation for wired controllers, and Wavebirds are overly expensive and hard to find. That basically leaves me with the option of a third party controller, which is something I always try to avoid. Rare is a third party controller that feels anything but hollow and cheap. I will admit that I haven’t gotten a chance to try many of the controllers available for the GameCube, but even in the best case scenario, I’m left with a big receiver sticking out of the side of my console for each controller I add.

Why? The Wii’s controller has an expansion port which the classic controller plugs into for an elegant wireless solution. This is perfectly suited to wireless play of GC games as well. I guess in the end, though, Nintendo just doesn’t want to deal with supporting that many peripherals.