Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April
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Re: Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April
#2On the positive side:
Players will be able to download patches and redownload games purchased from the eShop for the foreseeable future.
Re: Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April
#3This an evidence of gaping holes in digital consumer rights. People bought eShop software and physical hardware that they can no longer use or update.
Regulators should force companies to open source any games and associated server software that consumers paid to "own", yet companies are no longer willing to maintain.
Re: Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April
#4This an evidence of gaping holes in digital consumer rights. People bought eShop software and physical hardware that they can no longer use or update. Regulators should force companies to open source any games and associated server software that consumers paid to "own", yet companies are no longer willing to maintain.
The 3DS launched in early 2011 and the Wii U launched in late 2012. I don’t know that it’s unreasonable to discontinue supporting them after a decade.
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#5This an evidence of gaping holes in digital consumer rights. People bought eShop software and physical hardware that they can no longer use or update. Regulators should force companies to open source any games and associated server software that consumers paid to "own", yet companies are no longer willing to maintain.
Games can still be updated/redownloaded at least for now. It's really just online servers for games going down and for /most/ Wii U/3DS games it's not a huge deal. That said you are right and it is frustrating that companies can pull this crap. There is at least some effort already by the community to recreate the Wii U/3DS servers with Pretendo. Sucks that everything has to be reverse engineered though!
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#6This an evidence of gaping holes in digital consumer rights. People bought eShop software and physical hardware that they can no longer use or update. Regulators should force companies to open source any games and associated server software that consumers paid to "own", yet companies are no longer willing to maintain.
> People bought eShop software and physical hardware that they can no longer use or update.
Yeah, about that - ‘FAQ from Nintendo says that players will be able to download patches and redownload games purchased from the eShop “for the foreseeable future.”’ Directly from the link in the OP.
Re: Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April
#7Fortunately there is a fan run project that's working on recreating the online services for these consoles/games, in the same way that Wiimmfi has gotten the DS and Wii's multiplayer functionality up and running. See the Pretendo project here:
It's not exactly feature perfect yet, but 2024 gives them time to fix up many of the features they haven't gotten working, and hopefully expand support to more games.
Re: Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April
#8This an evidence of gaping holes in digital consumer rights. People bought eShop software and physical hardware that they can no longer use or update. Regulators should force companies to open source any games and associated server software that consumers paid to "own", yet companies are no longer willing to maintain.
The 3DS launched in early 2011 and the Wii U launched in late 2012. I don’t know that it’s unreasonable to discontinue supporting them after a decade.
The 3DS wasn't discontinued until 2020 and the Wii U 2017. Games were still released for a few years after too. There are older Switches than some 3DSs.
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#9>It will still be possible to use online services for the following software but that may also end at some point in the future.
>Pokémon Bank
I have 0 hopes tbh, the writing is on the wall.
Pokemon Bank is an awesome feature, basically allowing you to play through the whole franchise from Pokemons across all games...
Re: Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April
#10>It will still be possible to use online services for the following software but that may also end at some point in the future. >Pokémon Bank I have 0 hopes tbh, the writing is on the wall. Pokemon Bank is an awesome feature, basically allowing you to play through the whole franchise from Pokemons across all games...
Won't that make it blatantly obvious just how much each game is a copy of the previous one?