Nintendo's Wii U And 3DS Stores Closing Means Game Over For Digital Archives

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Nintendo's Wii U And 3DS Stores Closing Means Game Over For Digital Archives
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🎮 Starting March 27, you won't be able to buy digital games for the Wii U and 3DS.

, said the idea came out of the need to preserve the games soon to be made permanently unavailable.

Phoenix Wright's trademark gesture in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Dual Destinies, a 3DS game that has since been ported to Android and iOS."And while fans out there and archivists and people online have gone out of their way to download games and make them easy for people to rip and consume and to preserve, there's no legal way for anyone to play these [older] games."

"Digital is taking over, and so now more than ever, it is becoming so important that you physically go out and buy your games because you never know what's going to happen."

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