Nintendo's Vanishing Classics

Nintendo's vanishing classics....

The company added 15 Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games to Switch last month.

But it's removing 155 GB/GBA games across two other platforms' digital storefronts later this month.https://t.co/uyHYptE6cs pic.twitter.com/RKZwGOlokO

— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) March 3, 2023

The Wii U eshop is also losing the ability to purchase:
- 94 NES games
- 51 SNES games
- 21 N64 games
- 31 Nintendo DS games

The 3DS shop will lose at least*:
- 42 NES games
- 23 SNES games

Switch currently offers:
- 64 NES games
- 62 SNES games
- 22 N64 games
- 0 DS games

— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) March 3, 2023

*My 3DS count for NES/SNES is likely low due to a quirk in easily confirming via the system's eshop.

3DS' Virtual Console section fails to list GB games added prior to March 2013. Shows just 45 of 81 pic.twitter.com/F53ADe7TeN

— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) March 3, 2023

TIP: If you have a 3DS and want to load it up with classic games from the eshop, you can't rely on that Virtual Console section to find them.

I recommend you cross-reference this list, which proved accurate when I was checking for Game Boy games:
https://t.co/Cg0o0aKxhV

— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) March 3, 2023

Nintendo may one day fill its Switch classics section with as many GB/GBA games as WiiU /3DS are losing

They announced another GBA game (Metroid Fusion) for Switch last night, after we ran this chart

But the system is 6. They're just getting to Game Boy, haven't touched DS

— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) March 3, 2023