With the Wii U and 3DS eshops closing, it is hitting me about as hard as world of warcraft did when the cataclysm expansion was coming out. All of that lost content that I was never going to be able to see again. I just get the same feeling. Was fun while it lasted I guess. And we did get world of warcraft classic eventually.
Man and the switch online service isn’t nearly as good in my op. I dunno. Just feels like something is missing.
Probably should have posted this here.
I get the WiiU shop closing, but not the 3DS. I never saw the Switch as a DS replacement.
But ye, as above you might receive better responses there.
My son’s 3DS is never used anymore, it’s like 10 years old and battery life isn’t great anymore
And his Wii U gamepad the battery went so that’s useless now too lol
I hate all these systems having batteries that aren’t regular batteries you can just go buy at the store, one day my Switch wont charge anymore either. So lame.
Yet my original NES still going strong!
Consoles get old and obsolete. Happens every generation.
False. My NES, N64 and Gamecube will NEVER be obsolete
praise the joys of emulation
People will still be able to play all their old consoles, they just end online and store support for them and stop making games for them.
Id love to play my snes, n64, and gamecube again but i cant seem to find the cords for them. Super metroid just aint worth playing without a snes controller 
Honestly, I agree. Double A batteries made the systems more portable as well. If you were going on a trip, just bring a buttload of batteries with you and you were all good.
I also hate digital stuff to. But either way, If a system doesn’t charge anymore, I can always plug into a wall lol. That is what I do anyways.
Most people who Play Wii U for speedrunning, if the gamepad is required, they usually plug it into the wall while playing.
As for the switch, My guess is when the dock dies, then so does the system. Not sure if you can charge it via a charging cable or not though. But I am sure that if the dock dies, then you can’t play on the tv anymore. So I guess it would become a switch mini lite or something.
That and batteries are proprietary. Making them annoying to find. But like I said, for me, I just plug them into the wall if I get really desperate.
But yah, My N64 got kicked around, and it still works flawlessly. A disc. Oh god, I got a scratch. Can’t work anymore. Cannot be read. What gives with all this newer tech becoming more and more broken and easy to break.
Fun fact, doesn’t let you do this if you removed the battery. The one in my sons was expending, even pushing off the cover. I worried it would explode so I removed it completely, and it doesn’t work at all anymore.
Yah I can’t help you on that one lol. Of course you could always try and find another battery somewhere. But otherwise I dunno.
On the plus side, there’s probably some good news of some kind on the horizon, these things rarely happen without some good news in the following weeks/months, i hope it’s the Switch successor!
Yah this. I feel like the Wii U is a bit different though. It asks me to log in every time I want to go to the home screen. So where is that authenticating from.
I do know that re downloads and some other stuff will be possible for a while, but it is pretty vague so far as to what that means. And I cannot see online play support being supported for much longer on the 3DS and Wii U either.
I usually have no one to play with anyways, so it doesn’t bother me to much. Everyone else I know sells their old stuff and buys the new stuff. Where as I keep everything. There are a select amount of Wii U games that I don’t think will ever get a switch port, so I at least have reason to keep mine around. Smash bros on Wii U I am looking at you.
But alot of games have been ported over as well. So I don’t even know anymore.
Stuff like this is why i tend to buy physical games for my consoles and only allow them internet access for day one patches and such, i hate the idea of anything that’s always online or needing constant digital sign ins.
I feel like in general, while this is a thing, it just doesn’t work for me, and I honestly just don’t feel like folks should be taking the risk.
What I want is that Scott the Wozz thing going down.
Realistically, I would just want there to be 4 giant boxes.
One PC computer box for all the indy games via steam and all of the PC exclusive games. Steam is arguably the best in my op for indy gaming.
A giant Xbox that has pretty much every single Xbox game ever made all the way from the original Xbox to every other Xbox or whatever all in one place with a cloud service to redownload if it breaks.
A giant playstation that has all of the playstation games ever made from playstation 1-5 with a cloud type service to redownload in case it breaks.
And of course, finnaly and probably less feasibly due to how far behind nintendo usually is on tech and all that, is a giant Nintendo Box That has every single Nes all the way through the latest nintendo system game downloadable. Along with the Wii ware and Dsi and you name it could all be purchased here.
And if nintendo is to cheap, allow me to use external hard drive storage like the Wii U did. Arguably one of the better things about the Wii U personally. And of course nintendo would need a cloud service to recover lost data in case something happened with the old hardware.
I mean, and this wouldn’t be from some hack bro website with the potential to get millions of viruses. No. It would be all from the developer’s at that point.
I can dream though. This would be a cool reality.
Also, the ability to transfer all of this data to the new consoles when they get released would help alot to. Like we are still so far behind at this rate if the average gamer still resorts to emulation for alot of purposes. Like this shouldn’t even be a thing.
I still have my Wii U despite getting a Switch. I let family play on it now. Hopefully if/when they remove online they don’t have the necessary login stuff, or figure out some way around that.
Nintendo be like
“Pwease dont pirate our games, we wuv you uwu”
And then they like
“Hey we’ve made like 90% of our library unplayable on modern systems, so get rekt kiddo”
Easy money for gaming companies. Older components being replaced with new ones that are more expensive to make and therefore, easier to mark higher in price for retail and the higher the profit margin.
Capitalism doesn’t care for your sentimentality.
But yeah, it’s a sad time for those of us older gamers, for sure. I think that’s why more and more of them are turning to emulation.
Qamaits is right. Final Fantasy and nintendo stuff does not belong in GD, as it’s off topic to world of warcraft general discussion.