Final month noticed Nintendo lastly shut down the net servers for the Wii U and 3DS’ Nintendo Community. It was a tragic day, for positive, however there have been a courageous few who, within the month since, have stored the dream alive (thanks, GamesRadar).
Sure, a sure group slipped via the cracks of Nintendo’s shutdown and has been in a position to stay on-line for the following days and weeks. Two gamers, @fishguy6564 and @marioiscool246 (to make use of their Twitter handles), have been operating the ultimate Mario Kart 7 foyer for the previous month, programming two bots to race one another endlessly. Nicely, it was ‘endlessly’.
In a dramatic twist often reserved for episode 4 of a six-part Netflix drama, @marioiscool246’s 3DS froze whereas dashing across the Luigi’s Mansion circuit. After 13,151 races, solely @fishguy6564 stays on the Mario Kart 7 servers — albeit trapped within the foyer with no person to play in opposition to.
In whole, which means there are solely 4 recognized gamers left on the Nintendo Community as an entire. No less than, that is in keeping with @GaffsNotLaffs who has been conserving monitor of these remaining through the ‘Nintendo Community After Hours’ Discord server. Whereas fishguy6564 is the final within the 3DS driver’s seat, the Wii U servers nonetheless have one lively participant in Tremendous Mario Maker, Splatoon and Xenoblade Chronicles X respectively.
We’re hoping that the remaining ‘Elite 4’ can maintain on so long as doable, actually, although they’re dropping quick. Final week, Eeveh-roo-deh (イーヴェルーデ) disconnected from the Xenoblade Chronicles X server whereas a participant by the title of Amanda lastly dropped out of the Pokémon X & Y servers, sounding the loss of life knell for Gen VI’s on-line connectivity.
We’ll be maintaining a tally of those who stay to see simply how lengthy the servers may be stored alive.