Just as there was then, there was a sunset period here: While the Nintendo eShop storefronts for 3DS and Wii U remained open through March 27, 2023, May 23, 2022, was the cut-off for credit card purchases to add funds to eShop accounts necessary to buy games there. In 2019, the Wii Shop Channel for the Wii U’s more popular older sibling similarly closed its virtual doors, raising red flags among gamers concerned then, just as now, about the preservation of video game history, big and small. Game over: Nintendo Wii Shop Channel closes for good And there’s a whole universe of Virtual Console titles that haven’t yet made their way to Switch’s membership-based classic library. Then there’s The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD … Nintendo 3DS games you can’t play on any other hardware include The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Majora’s Mask 3D, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Super Mario 3D Land and the original Bravely Default - and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. Luigi can’t be found anywhere else, for example. On the unheralded Wii U side of things, ZombiU, Star Fox Guard and Dr. The problem with this is that it leaves out an entire catalog of content that was unique to the Wii/Wii U and 3DS ecosystem, not just the Virtual Console releases of those older titles (many of which are still left in limbo). “We currently have no plans to offer classic content in other ways,” reads the recent announcement from Nintendo, which points gamers instead to its Nintendo Switch Online subscription service on the Switch hybrid handheld console, a service that includes access to a curated selection of NES Super NES and Game Boy titles (and its more expensive cousin, Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, which offers N64, SEGA Genesis and Game Boy Advance titles for a hefty upcharge).
Older Nintendo video game systems are now cut off from digital consumers, as the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U console and Nintendo 3DS portables shut down for good on March 27.
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