Nintendo Closing 3DS, Wii U Stores, Giles Klasyczna gra będąca własnością

W poście Tytuł „Wycofanie Wii U i Nintendo 3DS eShop”Nintendo ogłosiło, że w marcu 2023 roku zaprzestanie obsługi sklepów internetowych dla obu systemów.

Ale w praktycznym sensie zamknięcia zaczynają się znacznie wcześniej:

– Od 23 maja 2022 r. karty kredytowe nie będą już używane do dodawania środków do kont w Nintendo eShop na systemach z rodziny Wii U lub Nintendo 3DS.

– Od 29 sierpnia 2022 r. karta Nintendo eShop nie będzie już używana do dodawania środków do kont Nintendo eShop na systemach z rodziny Wii U lub Nintendo 3DS. Jednak kody do pobrania można pobrać do końca marca 2023 r.

O ile ludzie już cieszą się graniem we własne gry, Nintendo mówi:

Pod koniec marca 2023 r. w przyszłości będzie można ponownie pobierać gry i DLC, otrzymywać aktualizacje oprogramowania i cieszyć się grą online na systemach z rodziny Wii U i 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. Odwiedź teraz I „Czy Nintendo nie powinno chronić swoich klasycznych gier, udostępniając je do dalszego zakupu?” Część zniknęła.