A month after Nintendo shut down the 3DS and Wii U servers, the eight final players broke a 14-year-old record set by a Halo 2 superfan.
The Nintendo 3DS and Wii U servers were shut down about a month ago, but eight dedicated players who refused to shut down their systems are, miraculously, still online and persisting on both consoles, and Ultimate Halo Breaking the record long held by 2 superfans.
Nintendo officially shut down the 3DS and Wii U servers on April 8, 2024, meaning that many favorite multiplayer games – such as Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Kid Icarus Uprising, and many others – will lose all online functionality forever. Lost for. (kinda.)
According to YouTuber GaffsNotLaffs, who has been tracking the server's final days and the Resolute soldiers still connected, players from Pokémon XY, Mario Kart 7, Mario Maker, Xenoblade Chronicles Splatoon, where a special inkling is trapped in map purgatory For the next decade.
We did it! Everyone on this list has been online longer after the shutdown of Nintendo Network than @APACHE_N4SIR after the shutdown of the original Xbox Live on Halo 2! pic.twitter.com/5BF8sRp74f4 May 2024
That means those eight players have held out on a disconnected Nintendo Network longer than the last Halo 2 Spartans after the original Xbox Live shut down. The Noble 14 similarly refused to turn off its OG Xbox Circa 2010, the last superfan lasted just over 25 days, trying desperately to cling to her dying lover. Congratulations to the last people on Earth to play 3DS and Wii U online, breaking a new record set 14 years ago.
The 3DS and Wii U, at least, launched with a bang with a community gathering to celebrate the final days of both consoles in spectacular fashion. A The Super Mario Maker community races to complete every single level in the gameIncluding what was thought to be humanly impossible. The SpotPass Archival Project also ran to preserve over 23,000 data dumps,
The real legacy of the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U is how they brought players together.
