March 27 marks the end of service for Nintendo’s 3DS and WiiU online stores, meaning people will no longer be able to purchase new games for these systems. And there’s no news as to whether these games will be available via Nintendo Switch Online or any other official method, which leaves people interested in these games other options.
The other option for players who don’t manage to download these games, for whatever reason, is piracy — an option Nintedo itself clearly doesn’t like.
Nintendo has very anti consumer practices, but they have too many apologist that defend them for them to change their ways. They are the most coddled gaming company of the big 3. They get away with pure f***ery a lot of times.
Them shutting down their online services is the reason why I refuse to buy digital games on the switch, apart from the few I ended up getting early on. Not just Nintendo though, I stopped buying digital games on PSN as well. I would argue that this is more a problem with consoles in general than just Nintendo though. I can't be sure that backwards compatibility will be a thing or that I'll be able to buy these games on later consoles so that's money I can't commit to giving.
There are many games that are just not possible to play without the need of emulators and piracy. The list will keep on growing.
The steam deck plays switch games pretty well. I beat many more games on there than the original switch. Strangely, games like infernax played better on Yuzu than the steam version.
You can buy a modded Switch on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listin... It's a bit expensive but all the work is done for you with over 2500+ Roms + Emulators. I have my New 3DS XL modded, which I did really nice emulation handheld. I have a OLED Switch, but over the years I'm losing all respect for Nintendo. I have thousands of roms, emulators, Raspberry Pi 4, etc. As long as torrents and usenet are around Nintendo can't do shit about them, they can take down websites but that's about it. 😁
It's not just shutting down the online stores. It's the fact that you can't perform local back ups of your own save files that infuriated me. Something that has been available for decades. I hate those anti-consumer practices, and that's a large reason why I went full piracy on the Switch.
With homebrew I can back up and restore my save files as I should be able to without having to pay a fee. They do these BS practices to prevent piracy but all it does it push me towards it in the end. Pure idiocy.