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"A little over a year ago, we discussed Nintendo’s shutdown of the eShop for
its 3DS and Wii U consoles. That shutdown ended up being delayed due to a
metric ton of outcry from the gaming public, but that was only a stay of
execution. In a matter of days, those shops will be discontinued, preventing
anyone from purchasing any titles in those stores. Many of the titles that are
original to those consoles are not available anywhere else. Nintendo has made
some vague noises about them becoming available on modern consoles, but all of
those plans live at the pleasure of Nintendo executives. Coupled with its
extremely litigious nature on matters of intellectual property, that’s how you
get to my nicknaming Nintendo as “the Disney of the video game industry.”
Preventing the gaming public from continuing to buy games that rely on a
company-operated backend infrastructure is one thing. After all, Nintendo can
do what it wants when it comes to putting its products into commerce. But what
really annoyed a ton of people, myself included, was how this would impact
archivists and historians, or anyone else interested in preserving video game
history and culture. With the impending shutdown, some of those entities are
once again expressing concern."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
