{"id":21673,"date":"2023-03-19T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/man-buys-every-single-video-game-on-the-wii-u-and-3ds-eshops\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:59:00","slug":"man-buys-every-single-video-game-on-the-wii-u-and-3ds-eshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/man-buys-every-single-video-game-on-the-wii-u-and-3ds-eshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Buys Each Single Video Sport On The Wii U and 3DS eShops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nintendo\u2019s resolution to shut each the Wii U and 3DS eShops<\/span> would possibly make business sense for the corporate, however for followers and lovers of online game historical past it\u2019s a catastrophe<\/em>, because it\u2019s feared most of the video games being eliminated will disappear and by no means be seen or made out there ever once more<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Why sport archivists are dreading this month\u2019s 3DS\/Wii U eShop shutdown<\/em><\/h4>\n

This glorious piece on Ars Technica final week <\/span>goes into this entire tragedy in depth, it\u2019s beneficial studying if that is of any curiosity to you in anyway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

A great deal of these video games are tiny little indie issues that most likely haven\u2019t been bought or heard from for years, however that doesn\u2019t imply they\u2019re not price preserving! And in addition to, a number of the video games disappearing are large, necessary releases. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker<\/em>, for instance, prestigious winner of \u201cMy Favorite Video Sport Of All Time\u201d, will now not be legally and commercially out there as soon as the Wii U eShop shuts down.<\/p>\n

In an effort to deal with this\u2014or at the very least deal with it in a single place on as few consoles as attainable\u2014YouTuber The Completionist determined to sit down down and spend virtually a 12 months of his life (328 days in complete) shopping for his means by way of each libraries.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s now accomplished, and the statistics are staggering. The dude purchased 866 Wii U video games and 1547 3DS titles, numbers that embody DSiWare, Digital Console releases and downloadable content material. That provides as much as 1.2TB of information for the Wii U, and 267GB for the 3DS. Or, for the 3DS purists studying, 2,136,689 blocks.<\/p>\n

Over 460 eShop playing cards had been used throughout all that buying, and in complete he spent a whopping $22,791. If you wish to see the way it all got here collectively, the video beneath explains the entire course of:<\/p>\n