Nintedo 3DS and Wii U be turned off by April 2024

[Drayton]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/n...es-will-shut-down-in-april-2024/1100-6518163/

Don't worry though since there's pretendo or something like that keeping the service up even after shutting down.

 

[Palamon]

This is really sad. Oh, well. It is what it is. I know servers can't stay up forever. But now this means there's no free Nintendo online service which is...the worsts part, I guess.

 

[RadEmpoleon]

I mean this was bound to happen eventually, but it still made me sad to hear that.

 

[CoolKid575]

I mean this was bound to happen eventually, but it still made me sad to hear that.

I'm surprised it took them this long tbh. The DS/Wii servers went down basically right after they stopped getting games.

 

[Tsutarja]

at least pokémon bank isn't going anywhere

I'm surprised it took them this long tbh. The DS/Wii servers went down basically right after they stopped getting games.

big difference between the ds/wii servers and the 3ds/wiiu servers is that the latter were in-house at nintendo whereas the ds/wii servers were hosted by a third party known as gamespy. gamespy's shutdown was the big reason behind the ds/wii servers going offline.

 

[Drayton]

For a sec, I always thought DS/Wii was hosted by nintendo themselves, but was that before gamespy came in and took down

 

[NipahRika]

Wow, so sad to hear. I never got to experience the online stuff with Wii and DS myself.

 

[CoolKid575]

Wow, so sad to hear. I never got to experience the online stuff with Wii and DS myself.

Me neither, I've done some stuff with Wiimmfi and while it's really cool; it'll never truly emulate the experience of hanging out online on the DS in like 2008; there are simply too few users. Not to mention certain things like Dream World still haven't been able to be revived.