Nintendo Announces Official End Date for Online Services on These Consoles
If you own a Nintendo Wii or 3DS handheld console, you may be aware that the Japanese gaming giant announced that it will shut down its online servers for these devices in April 2024. But now we have an exact date when this will happen. happen. Nintendo’s official support announcement has revealed that the disconnection will take place on April 8, 2024 at 4pm PDT.
This means that users of these consoles only have a limited amount of time, a few months, to continue online communication, cooperative play and investments on these platforms.
This applies to the following console versions:
– New Nintendo 3DS
– New Nintendo 3DS XL
– New Nintendo 2DS XL
– Nintendo 3DS
– Nintendo 3DS XL
– Nintendo 2DS
– Wii U Deluxe
– Wii U Basic
Nintendo has also announced that they must transfer all remaining trade balances to link them to their Nintendo Account by March 11th at 10:00 PM PT. Once linked, this balance can be used to purchase games on Nintendo Switch. For previous purchases, users can still download purchased games and update information and download DLC from the Nintendo eShop.
However, this change will not only affect the entire user base of 75 million Nintendo 3DS owners, but also about 13 million Nintendo Wii U users. While they can still use their console offline, online functionality will be disabled. Therefore, participating in Pokémon battles with friends and buying new games is no longer possible.
Nintendo discontinued the 3DS in 2020, and it’s been almost four years since it was discontinued. The Nintendo Wii’s successor, the Nintendo Wii U, was also discontinued in 2017, the same year the Nintendo Switch was released.
