Archivists accused Nintendo of preventing the preservation of a game story

Video Game History Foundation – an organization that is engaged in the preservation of a game story. She is unhappy with how Nintendo Classes the digital store on 3DS and WII U – according to archivists, the company prevents the company from protecting video games as a cultural heritage.

VGHF employees published the following message:

It is sad that people will no longer be able to purchase digital games for 3DS or WII U, but we understand the realities of business related to this decision. What we do not understand is that, in the opinion Nintendo, Fans should receive these games if they want to play them in the future.

We call ESA members like Nintendo Review your position on this issue and start the search for decisions in cooperation with the relevant organizations.

OUR Statement on the Closure of https://casinoways.org Nintendo’s Legacy Digital Shops. Pic.Twitter.COM/Mg5gzugh4g

– Video Game History Foundation (@gamehistoryorg) February 17, 2022

Head of VGHF Frank Sifaldi (Frank Cifaldi) on his personal page spoke more sharply:

The commercial industry will never fully support old games, and our own government makes it impossible to even enlist the help of libraries. No one will save a game story, except all of us. It will never change.

Apparently, Sifaldi He called on the owners of 3DS and WII U Creling their consoles so that they definitely have access to backups of games. He said something the same about PlayStation 3 when Sony announced the intention to disconnect the PlayStation Store there. Looks like a short time Sifaldi deleted the call to hack 3DS and WII U – there were only quotes in the press.

You Want Proof that Nintendo’s Not Going to Take Responsibility for Keeping Games in Print? This is the Now Deleted Question and Answer from Their Own Faq. The Answer To Whather Its Their Obligation to Keep Games Available Is "We Sell Some Old Stuff On Solo So Its Fine."Pic.Twitter.COM/X2SB7EVTIX

– Frank Cifaldi (Unlicense).Nes (@frankcifaldi) February 16, 2022

Nintendo Life published anonymous comments from a former employee Nintendo of America. According to him, Nintendo determines when it is worth ending the support of the console, in its first two years on the market. Therefore, the company decided to turn Wii U as soon as possible – already in 2014 Nintendo I thought that the concept did not take off.

When the digital store on 3DS and WII U will turn off, people will still be able to download purchased games and play on the network. However, according to anonymous, this will last only a couple of years: they say, within 2023 Nintendo will announce that he is going to disconnect the Internet services completely. Accordingly, digital purchases will be inaccessible entirely.

Eyewitnesses have already analyzed losses from disconnecting ESHOP catalogs on 3DS and WII U.

Approximately 530 games are in the Virtual Console program – a kind of official emulator of classics. About 350 of them still have not reached the Nintendo Switch Online, where there is an analogue of Virtual Console.