2nd September 2017, 10:53 AM
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMH...V44YslslXw
So it's official, and it's coming far sooner than is reasonable or decent -- Nintendo is completely shutting down Miiverse on November 7th. Games that have Miiverse integration will be broken after that point, and those elements of the games won't work. It sounds like Mario & Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (3DS/Wii U) will be the worst-affected title, as even level download online won't work after that, so I really should get it before then... I really liked the last DS M&DK game, which I think that one is similar to.
Seriously though, completely shutting down Miiverse this year is such an obnoxiously awful thing to do! Sure the Wii U is fading out, but the 3DS still has good upcoming releases and Miiverse is very much a thing there. And breaking major elements of a lot of your Wii U and 3DS games for no good reason -- because seriously, Nintendo has the money to keep Miiverse up, it can't be that expensive! -- is really not good for consumers.
Now, I never posted much on Miiverse, but as a resource for information about games it's great. It's kind of like the game-specific forums Steam and GOG have, except for a console, and for that use I think that Miiverse is a great idea. It's really unfortunate and, in my opinion, a mistake that Nintendo is abandoning the idea of running their own network and is now saying "just use Facebook and Twitter and stuff", because those aren't the same at all! Game-specific pages are a completely different thing from generic social networks, and I really like having that level of categorization.
So, instead of being somewhat cruelly obnoxious as Nintendo is being, they should have continued Miiverse on and made it a part of the Switch as well.
So it's official, and it's coming far sooner than is reasonable or decent -- Nintendo is completely shutting down Miiverse on November 7th. Games that have Miiverse integration will be broken after that point, and those elements of the games won't work. It sounds like Mario & Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (3DS/Wii U) will be the worst-affected title, as even level download online won't work after that, so I really should get it before then... I really liked the last DS M&DK game, which I think that one is similar to.
Seriously though, completely shutting down Miiverse this year is such an obnoxiously awful thing to do! Sure the Wii U is fading out, but the 3DS still has good upcoming releases and Miiverse is very much a thing there. And breaking major elements of a lot of your Wii U and 3DS games for no good reason -- because seriously, Nintendo has the money to keep Miiverse up, it can't be that expensive! -- is really not good for consumers.
Now, I never posted much on Miiverse, but as a resource for information about games it's great. It's kind of like the game-specific forums Steam and GOG have, except for a console, and for that use I think that Miiverse is a great idea. It's really unfortunate and, in my opinion, a mistake that Nintendo is abandoning the idea of running their own network and is now saying "just use Facebook and Twitter and stuff", because those aren't the same at all! Game-specific pages are a completely different thing from generic social networks, and I really like having that level of categorization.
So, instead of being somewhat cruelly obnoxious as Nintendo is being, they should have continued Miiverse on and made it a part of the Switch as well.
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