Try looking them up on the Wii U. Unless they added them back, I have not been able to find them for a while. Especially Pier Solar and The Cave, those two have been gone for a while.
Folks have had ten years to purchase games on 3DS and nine on Wii U. Neither platform has had a major release in years. Virtual Console updates ended in 2017. If anything, Nintendo left the shop open too long, or at least a lot longer than they could be reasonably expected to do.
I never had a Wii U but the 3DS is still a fantastic handheld, I’m playing through the original Monster Hunter Stories just now, and I collect physical for this and the DS. I just find it really inconvenient that Nintendo removed the UK credit card option so early.
I have different accounts over my 3DS console collection due to Nintendo’s complicated and restrictive system so I can’t fund everything through my Switch nor can I swap games from one 3DS to another and continue playing where I left off. This is something they should open up on legacy consoles.
There are still a few games I want digitally that are restrictive, price wise, on physical due to rarity and I find the voucher system a bit unfair as it means topping up more money than is needed.
Hehe, all the doom and gloom about “killing the eShop”. I wouldn’t read too much into this. My guess is that the eShop app on the WiiU and 3DS simply don’t support necessarily security features. In Europe, you are now required to use two factor authentication, which means, at least in my case with a Mastercard, that a separate website opens where you have to answer a security question and enter a TAN you received via SMS.
@zapswitch as was speculated upon a similar event in western regions, it’s possibly due to the respective eShop apps falling behind some changes in financial operation requirements online and requiring a bigger under-the-hood overhaul to address that than Nintendo is motivated to invest in.
A bummer indeed but only really annoying when you’re trying to buy 3DS DLC (like extra cases in the newer Ace Attorney games) – it’s still only accessed via respective games and thus can’t take the surviving advantage of the browser storefront’s “add only the required amount”, potentially necessitating a larger wallet shot (in Russian region, for instance, the minimal default is 750 rubles when the DLC piece in question might cost a tenth of that). Thankfully, the option to use leftover funds from Switch eShop wallet can mitigate this FWP at times.
@FatWormBlowsASparky no, Wii U eShop itself should remain fully functional – you just can’t directly add funds to it from your console anymore. Nintendo website is the way to go.
In addition to the MegaTen games, Atlus RPGs in general are going to get very, very expensive when the 3DS eShop closes down. I’d recommend people look into grabbing the Etrian Odyssey games, Persona Q games and Radiant Historia (hopefully there’ll be a few more Atlus eShop sales).
