Nintendo 3DS Sluit Wii U-winkels doodt eigendom van klassieke games

bij de post Getiteld “Wii U en Nintendo 3DS eShop stopgezet”Nintendo heeft zojuist aangekondigd dat in maart 2023 de online storefronts voor beide platforms zullen stoppen met werken.

Maar in de praktijk zullen shutdowns veel eerder beginnen dan dat:

Vanaf 23 mei 2022 is het niet langer mogelijk om een ​​creditcard te gebruiken om geld toe te voegen aan een account in een Nintendo eShop op de Wii U- of Nintendo 3DS-systemen.

Vanaf 29 augustus 2022 is het niet langer mogelijk om de Nintendo eShop Card te gebruiken om geld toe te voegen aan een account in een Nintendo eShop op de Wii U- of Nintendo 3DS-systemen. Downloadcodes kunnen echter nog tot eind maart 2023 worden ingewisseld.

In termen van mensen die games spelen en ervan genieten die ze al hebben, zegt Nintendo:

Zelfs na eind maart 2023 is het in de nabije toekomst nog steeds mogelijk om games en downloadbare content opnieuw te downloaden, software-updates te ontvangen en te genieten van online gaming op de Wii U en de Nintendo 3DS-systemen.

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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. Ga het nu bekijken en “Is Nintendo niet toegewijd aan het behoud van zijn klassieke games door ze constant beschikbaar te stellen voor aankoop?” deel weg.