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Nintendo Announces Official End for Wii U and 3DS Systems

It's officially time.
by Natalie Collazo on February 16, 2022   

It's official. Nintendo has announced the discontinuation of their 3DS and Wii U eShop titles. Beginning late March of 2023, it will not be possible to download or make any purchases on the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS family of systems. Below is a rundown of everything stated in the post:

  • Beginning May 23, 2022, it will no longer be possible to use a credit card to add funds to an account in Nintendo eShop on WiiU or the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
  • Beginning August 29, 2022, it will no longer be possible to use a Nintendo eShop Card to add funds to an account in Nintendo eShop on Wii U or the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. However, it will still be possible to redeem download codes until late March 2023.
  • Users who link their Nintendo Network ID wallet (used with Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems) with their Nintendo Account wallet (used with the Nintendo Switch family of systems) can use the shared balance to purchase content on any of these systems until late March 2023. After that, the balance can only be used to purchase content for the Nintendo Switch family of systems.
  • Even as of late March 2023, and for the foreseeable future, it will still be possible to redownload games and DLC, receive software updates and enjoy online play on Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

Nintendo followed up this blog post with several FAQ to ensure that their fans would have a clear understanding of how they want to move forward with this change. As of right now, there don't seem to be planning to add classic content to the Nintendo family of systems with a previously published version of this same blog post (as reported by Kotaku and now edited as of writing this).
 

Once it is no longer possible to purchase software in Nintendo eShop on Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, many classic games for past platforms will cease to be available for purchase anywhere. Will you make classic games available to own some other way? If not, then why? Doesn’t Nintendo have an obligation to preserve its classic games by continually making them available for purchase?

Across our Nintendo Switch Online membership plans, over 130 classic games are currently available in growing libraries for various legacy systems. The games are often enhanced with new features such as online play.

We think this is an effective way to make classic content easily available to a broad range of players. Within these libraries, new and longtime players can not only find games they remember or have heard about, but other fun games they might not have thought to seek out otherwise.

We currently have no plans to offer classic content in other ways.


Follow back up with DailyGamer for more information as this story progresses to find out what more Nintendo has to say about the future of classic games.
 

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