LogFAQs > #979809097

I can kind of understand not maintaining servers for online play, since as much as Nintendo could afford to keep them up, that's still a cost with no chance of a return, but the deaths of the eshops really bug me. The 3DS and WiiU eshops already used an account service that was integrated with the Switch's, such that there's absolutely no reason they couldn't just use one universal shop server for all of their platforms and keep them supported indefinitely. The only cost to keep those digital titles up would be storage space (any direct costs incurred by downloading games would be covered by the games' costs), and not only is storage space pretty cheap, they're already paying to store copies of all of these games. The only reason to shut the stores down is to make it easier to sell the same games again on later systems, with fewer options for interested consumers to buy an old system and get the games for less.