
After having to apologize and offer early adopters an " Ambassador Program," the handheld ended up gaining momentum and eventually sold over 75 million units, through a slew of iterations. Now just a little over a decade old, the Nintendo 3DS released in early 201, to a slow start. As always, convenience comes at a much higher cost down the road and, well, that time has come. We've enabled consumption at our fingertips, which companies have gladly used to erode the terms of game ownership. Though the company preempts the news by saying that downloads will still work "for the foreseeable future," that message also implies that your games will disappear at some point. Nintendo has announced that both the 3DS and Wii U eShops are on the way out. Bad news, (old) kids: the digital present is garbage.
