Editing Storefront shutdown (section)

===Wii U/3DS eShops (2012–2023)<!-- Consider discussing making a new post for this -->===
Launched in November 2012, the [[Nintendo]] eShop for Wii U and 3DS was [[Nintendo|Nintendo's]] 2nd major digital storefront. The shutdown of this storefront in April 2023<ref>https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/57847/~/wii-u-%26-nintendo-3ds-eshop-discontinuation-q%26a</ref> was directly connected to online gameplay services also getting shut down for titles such as Super Mario Maker and Splatoon. Roughly 1.5TB worth of games were delisted from the storefronts,<ref>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03/todays-the-last-day-to-buy-eshop-games-for-the-wii-u-and-3ds/</ref> and preservation efforts were hampered through [[Nintendo|Nintendo's]] restrictions,<ref name=":0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujHUMG0Uovs</ref> such as the $250 limit for account balance at any given time, no matter if it is via gift card or physical funds being transferred to the balance. The Completionist's video covering the event had also documented a limit for how many games can be downloaded at once, and account lockdowns if you redeem $1000 in eShop cards within a 24hr period,<ref name=":0" /> among several other anti-consumer problems that hampered the efforts of preservation. Additionally, the VirtualConsole<ref>https://arstechnica.com/tag/virtual-console/</ref> (VC) series, what was the only legitimate way to purchase new copies of vintage games for multiple [[Nintendo]] platforms, was among the litany of titles erased from servers, forcing consumers that missed out on purchasing these titles to only be capable of paying for a [[Nintendo Switch Online]] (NSO) subscription to play retro Nintendo games, which they wouldn't own, and various VC releases have remained to not be re-released on NSO.<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/26/23657431/wii-u-nintendo-3ds-eshops-shut-down</ref>