Cause of death? aggravated loneliness Several players tried to restart their Wii U. To no avail. The old generation of Nintendo consoles don’t seem to withstand long periods in the closet. Some owners have seen error messages suggesting permanent console memory corruption.
The phenomenon is observed because many Wii U or Nintendo 3DS owners dust off their old consoles. As of March 27, 2023, the application stores of the two machines will close their doors forever, explains the American medium The Verge. Therefore, gamers rush to their console to recover dematerialized versions of games for the last time in a legal way.
Disowned by gamers, the Wii U was one of the technological flops of the decade. With only 13 million copies sold, the console’s production stopped at the end of 2016, just four years after it was released. Already in March 2017, the Japanese manufacturer introduced the Nintendo Switch, which sold significantly better with 15 million sales in 2017 alone.
However, some are trying to find a solution to these malfunctions. On Twitter, someone is trying to recover now unusable consoles for examination. Its goal is to analyze the models memory to potentially find a way to repair them.
“I am very emotionally attached to this thing (the Wii U), but I would be willing to sacrifice it for the good of all,” replied a player whose console no longer turns on.
Source: BFM TV
