Nintendo has announced that, in April 2024, online play and communication will end for th🎃e 3DS and Wii U.
This means that the first Splatoon, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Kart 8, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Smash Bros. 4, Mario Maker, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and more will not be playable online after next year. As for whether third-party games will suffer the same fate, Nintendo stated, "With some exceptions, online services will end for all Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software." If you're still playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Minecraft or Terraria on Wii U, you'll likely have to stick to singleplayer going forward.
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The only first-party title that will🐻 still support online services is Pokemon Bank, but Nintendo stresses that support "may also end at some point in the future." And while the plan is to shut down online functionality in April, Nintendo stated that "if an event occurs that would make it difficult to continue online services, we may have to discontinue services earlier than planned."
If you want to continue placing badges from the arcade onto your 3DS home🌠 menu, you need to do it before the service ends. According to Nintendo, it will otherwise "display an error screen when launched", making♈ it impossible to use the software.
Earlier this year, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the ⛄Wii U and 3DS storefronts closed down, as well. That means you can't buy any new games digitally on either platform. With online functionality also coming to an end, it's clear Nintendo wants to move the last stragglers to the Switch, to the detriment of preserving the two consoles' libraries. Expectedly, it's not going down well.
"This was inevitable but this news still hit me like a truck," . "Is it really that hard for a multi-billion dollar comp🧸any to keep these servers up?"
"My hope for the Switch 2 is some sort of control scheme that acco🍒mmodates the DS/3DS/Wii U because, as it stands, those truly will be 🍌consoles lost to time without any other accurate alternatives," .
Unless Nintendo ports much of the old library over, it'll be up to fans to get these games playable online again.