I'm not going to lie, I have to agree about the Nintendo 64 controller. Some of my favorite games of all time came out on the N64 but that controller used to frustrate me at times. The analog stick also suffered from some weird lag at times.
From what I learnt, it also works flawlessly with PC as well and you don't need a dongle for it to work wirelessly like the PS4. If you have Bluetooth, it'll work right out of the box. However, I see them going for close to $100 online already though...
Personally, it shouldn't stop with just EA either. Ubisoft, Bethesda, Activision, 2k Games should suffer the same consequences as well for their anti consumer practices.
Blew up? Hasn't happened to me yet. However, my water cooler did leak, frying my previous gaming rig including my 1080 TI...(I'm not crying...I swear I'm not).