pašte Pavadinimas „Wii U ir Nintendo 3DS eShop nutrauktas“„Nintendo“ ką tik paskelbė, kad 2023 m. kovo mėn. abiejų platformų internetinės parduotuvės nustos veikti.

Tačiau praktiškai išjungimai prasidės daug anksčiau:

Nuo 2022 m. gegužės 23 d. nebebus galima naudoti kreditinės kortelės pinigų į sąskaitą Nintendo eShop Wii U arba Nintendo 3DS šeimos sistemose.

Nuo 2022 m. rugpjūčio 29 d. nebebus galima naudoti „Nintendo eShop“ kortelės norint pridėti pinigų prie „Nintendo eShop“ paskyros, esančios „Wii U“ arba „Nintendo 3DS“ šeimos sistemose. Tačiau atsisiuntimo kodus vis tiek bus galima išpirkti iki 2023 m. kovo pabaigos.

Kalbant apie žmones, kurie žaidžia ir mėgaujasi jau turimais žaidimais, „Nintendo“ sako:

Net ir po 2023 m. kovo pabaigos artimiausioje ateityje vis tiek bus galima iš naujo atsisiųsti žaidimus ir atsisiunčiamą turinį, gauti programinės įrangos naujinių ir mėgautis internetiniais žaidimais naudojant „Wii U“ ir „Nintendo 3DS“ šeimos sistemas.

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All of this is expected stuff. The 3DS is 11 years old this year and the Wii U ten, so digital store closures were always going to happen sooner or later. What’s shitty about these closures in particular, though, is that both shopfronts offered users the ability to purchase and then own many of Nintendo’s greatest ever titles, something you’re now largely unable to do ever since the company switched to a subscription model with Nintendo Switch Online.

The company saw this coming. When the blog post was first made, an associated FAQ had the following exchange:

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.

“We currently have no plans to offer classic content in other ways” is an incredibly shitty thing to read, because under zero circumstances is a subscription-based model an acceptable substitution to actually owning a game.

Especially wild, then, is the fact that not long after publishing this, Nintendo wiped that particular section of the Q&A from its site. Eikite ir patikrinkite dabar ir „Ar „Nintendo“ nėra įsipareigojusi išsaugoti savo klasikinius žaidimus, nuolat leisdama juos įsigyti? dalis dingo.