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Nintendo has set the April shutdown date for 3DS and Wii U online play (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Glad I picked up a Steam Deck: Online play shutdown = never

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Moders will make servers like they did for Wii.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not really true. Every game will be offline at some point if the publisher don't want to pay for server anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If that game relies on a corpo server, maybe, but even most of those games can likely be modded to work with local host or a "pirate" host.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's the case for nintendo games as well. There are projects to keep online alive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Doesn't Nintendo have a history of shutting down any fan stuff though? PC games are usually waaaay more mod friendly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are a lit projects that doesn't disturb nintendo's lawyers. Nintendo doesn't like it it people make money with their brands, take money away from them or hurt nintendo's reputation. The Pokemon fan project ura####, got shut down because they try to get money with it, but pokemon ######(not sure if against rules) online is a online none profit project that is online now for years. You just have to understand nintendo. Alternativ online server for nintendo games, seems to be fine with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do the Wii and Wii U emulators on steam deck have online capability?

[–] Salix 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wanna say yes but I haven't even scratched the surface of emulating yet so I'm not sure: Still have an absolutely massive backlog of Steam games to play through. That said, I heard Emudeck is fucking fantastic!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Guessing that they announce the Switch successor before that date to mask the bad news.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I am assuming afterwards if I'm going by eShop closure and TotK trailer 3

I feel confident about a September release ngl

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Do you mean that I can't play Splatoon online after 76 days ? On Wii u?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

My childhood is starting to leave me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have hope in Pretendo