dans la poste Intitulé « Wii U et Nintendo 3DS eShop abandonnés »Nintendo vient d’annoncer qu’en mars 2023, les vitrines en ligne des deux plateformes cesseront de fonctionner.
Mais en pratique, les arrêts commenceront beaucoup plus tôt que cela :
À partir du 23 mai 2022, il ne sera plus possible d’utiliser une carte de crédit pour ajouter de l’argent à un compte dans un Nintendo eShop sur les consoles de la famille Wii U ou Nintendo 3DS.
À partir du 29 août 2022, il ne sera plus possible d’utiliser la carte Nintendo eShop pour ajouter de l’argent à un compte dans un Nintendo eShop sur la famille de consoles Wii U ou Nintendo 3DS. Cependant, les codes de téléchargement seront toujours utilisables jusqu’à fin mars 2023.
En ce qui concerne les personnes qui jouent et apprécient les jeux qu’ils possèdent déjà, Nintendo déclare :
Même après fin mars 2023, dans un avenir prévisible, il sera toujours possible de retélécharger des jeux et du contenu téléchargeable, de recevoir des mises à jour logicielles et de profiter de jeux en ligne sur la Wii U et la famille de consoles Nintendo 3DS.
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All of this is expected stuff. The 3DS is 11 years old this year and the Wii U ten, so digital store closures were always going to happen sooner or later. What’s shitty about these closures in particular, though, is that both shopfronts offered users the ability to purchase and then own many of Nintendo’s greatest ever titles, something you’re now largely unable to do ever since the company switched to a subscription model with Nintendo Switch Online.
The company saw this coming. When the blog post was first made, an associated FAQ had the following exchange:
Once it is no longer possible to purchase software in Nintendo eShop on Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, many classic games for past platforms will cease to be available for purchase anywhere. Will you make classic games available to own some other way? If not, then why? Doesn’t Nintendo have an obligation to preserve its classic games by continually making them available for purchase?
Across our Nintendo Switch Online membership plans, over 130 classic games are currently available in growing libraries for various legacy systems. The games are often enhanced with new features such as online play.
We think this is an effective way to make classic content easily available to a broad range of players. Within these libraries, new and longtime players can not only find games they remember or have heard about, but other fun games they might not have thought to seek out otherwise.
We currently have no plans to offer classic content in other ways.
“We currently have no plans to offer classic content in other ways” is an incredibly shitty thing to read, because under zero circumstances is a subscription-based model an acceptable substitution to actually owning a game.
Especially wild, then, is the fact that not long after publishing this, Nintendo wiped that particular section of the Q&A from its site. Allez voir maintenant » et « Nintendo ne s’engage-t-il pas à préserver ses jeux classiques en les rendant constamment disponibles à l’achat ? partie partie.
