Nintendo Closes Online Play for Wii U and 3DS

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Nintendo Closes Online Play for Wii U and 3DS
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Today is the final day to play online on the Wii U and 3DS consoles. The Wii U allowed players to compete globally and enjoy games like Mario Kart 8 without the pressure of playing with strangers.

Nintendo is officially closing the chapter on the Wii U and 3DS . Today is the final day to play online on either console, and it’s kind of making me want to dust off the Wii U just to play the original Splatoon online one last time. The Wii U was far from Nintendo ’s most popular console, but I still have a lot of great memories with the machine. It was the first console I used to play competitively.

The same goes for the Nintendo 3DS, which I used to visit other towns in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, compete against other players in Kid Icarus: Uprising, and have battles in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. It’s sad that — after more than a decade — online services for both the Wii U and the 3DS are going away for good. Nintendo first announced the shutdown last year and also closed the online stores for both consoles in March 2023.

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