Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U are officially in the last phase of life. Both will lose eShop functionality next year, Nintendo reports Wednesday night.
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– This is part of the natural life cycle of any product as it becomes less used by consumers, Nintendo explains on its website.
The doors for purchases in the consoles’ respective stores will close for good at the end of March 2023. The opportunity to deposit money with a credit card will disappear before that time, more specifically on 23 May this year, while all use of eShop cards on 3DS and Wii U stopped August 29, 2022.
As Nintendo says, it was important to give everyone enough time to prepare. Players now have just over a year to do away with whatever they want from game and extra content purchases, as well as download demos or free games.
It is further pointed out that it will still be possible to download games and other content you already own, even after March 2023. According to Nintendo, this will be available “in the foreseeable future”, which suggests that this feature will also disappear eventually.
In other Nintendo news, CEO Doug Bowser recently announced that the Nintendo Switch is just that midway through its life cycle. The console, which has sold 103.5 million copies since 2019, has a few more years to go.
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