Em uma postagem Intitulado “Descontinuação do Wii U e Nintendo 3DS eShop”A Nintendo anunciou que descontinuará as operações de amigos da loja online para ambos os sistemas em março de 2023.
Mas, no sentido prático, os fechamentos começam muito mais cedo do que isso:
– A partir de 23 de maio de 2022, os cartões de crédito não serão mais usados para adicionar fundos a contas na Nintendo eShop nos sistemas da família Wii U ou Nintendo 3DS.
– A partir de 29 de agosto de 2022, o cartão Nintendo eShop não será mais usado para adicionar fundos a contas Nintendo eShop nos sistemas da família Wii U ou Nintendo 3DS. No entanto, os códigos de download podem ser recuperados até o final de março de 2023.
Na medida em que as pessoas já estão gostando de jogar seus próprios jogos, a Nintendo diz:
Após o final de março de 2023, no futuro, você poderá baixar novamente jogos e DLC, receber atualizações de software e jogar online nos sistemas da família Wii U e Nintendo 3DS.
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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. Visite agora E “A Nintendo não deveria estar protegendo seus jogos clássicos, tornando-os disponíveis para compra contínua?” A parte se foi.
