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The Wii U and Nintendo 3DS digital storefronts are shutting down tomorrow, March 27th, 2023. While you\u2019ll no longer be able to purchase games or DLC from either eShop, you\u2019ll still be able to redownload the games you\u2019ve already bought and play online for the time being.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Nintendo first warned us of the shutdown last year<\/a> and started barring users from loading money into the Wii U and 3DS eShops in August. Sadly, this imminent shutdown means we\u2019ll have to bid farewell to the hundreds of great digital-only titles available on either store, such as Dr. Luigi<\/em>, Pokemon Rumble U<\/em>, Pushmo<\/em>, Pok\u00e9mon Picross<\/em>, and many others. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The closures will also make it impossible to purchase the full range of Virtual Console games on the 3DS and Wii U, which I\u2019ll personally miss the most. (Remember when Nintendo actually let us buy from a huge selection of standalone digital classics without a subscription<\/a>? Those were the days.) We\u2019re going to lose around 1,000 digital-only games as a result of the eShop shutdowns, according to an analysis from VGC<\/em><\/a>, and if that\u2019s not upsetting enough, VGC<\/em> says around 530 of those games are Virtual Console titles \u2014 about 335 of which aren\u2019t even available through Nintendo Switch Online yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n