Nintendo’s decision Close Wii U and 3DS eShops It might make commercial sense for the company, but for fans and fans of video game history, it’s a no-brainer disasterAs we fear Many deleted games will be gone, never to be seen or available again.
Many of these games are pretty small indie things that may not have been bought or heard of in years, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth keeping! Plus some of the disappearing games are significant and important releases. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind WakerFor example, the coveted “Favorite Video Game of All Time” winner will no longer be legally and commercially available once the Wii U eShop closes.
In an effort to fix this problem – or at least fix it in one place on as few consoles as possible – YouTuber The Completionist decided to sit down and spend nearly a year of his life (328 days in total) browsing through the two libraries. .
It’s over now, and the stats are staggering. The man bought 866 Wii U games and 1,547 3D games, numbers that include DSiWare and Virtual Console versions and downloadable content. This adds up to 1.2TB of data for the Wii U and 267GB for the 3DS. Or, for 3DS reading geeks, 2,136,689 blocks.
Over 460 eShop cards were used on all of those purchases, and in total $22,791 was spent. If you want to see how it all went, the video below shows the whole process:
If you’re wondering what’s going on with all this now, full He says at the end of the video that he’s donating everything uploaded to the Video Game History Foundation (despite it being an organization traditionally dealing only with physical media, And with digital games that pose legal challengesWhat In reality Happening to anything downloaded in the long run is still not clear).
