3DS and Wii U Eshops Making Big Change Soon
It’s the end of an era. Back in February, Nintendo announced that it would be sunsetting the eShop applications on the 3DS and Wii U consoles, intending to fully terminate them in March 2023. Panicked Nintendo fans returned to these services en masse to download exclusive titles that may be otherwise inaccessible in the very near future. Unfortunately, using the soon-to-be-severed service is about to become quite a bit more difficult, as Nintendo will disable the use of credit and debit cards on the 3DS and Wii U eShops on May 23.
Sadly, this is par-for-the-course for Nintendo, as it took similar measures to disable the Wii Shop Channel and the DSi Shop in 2019 before seemingly shuttering the servers altogether a few months ago. It’s worth noting that this change was already implemented in Japan in January of this year, and, while North American gamers will still be able to make purchases via credits transferred from Nintendo eShop cards, this will be phased out in late August.
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At a glance, Nintendo has had an excellent track record of late, publishing major hits such as Pokemon Legends: Arceus and Kirby and the Forgotten Land, greatly expanding the Nintendo Switch Online service, and helping the Nintendo Switch to crack the one-hundred million global sales mark. That said, decisions such as these tend to leave sour tastes in the mouths of dedicated fans, and, should this trend continue in an all-digital future, it seems as if many games published on Nintendo-owned platforms will be doomed to obsolescence.
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