While Poké Transporter and Pokémon Bank are exceptions to the impending closure, even Nintendo’s support website hedges that those apps “may also end at some point in the future.”Īs someone who still loves using their 3DS, I didn’t have a problem with the Game Boy Pokémon games not being available on other Nintendo systems - until now. While Virtual Console versions of these classic Pokémon games technically won’t lose any features when online services go away, the writing on the wall is only getting more obvious. We’ve recently learned that online 3DS and Wii U services will shut down in April 2024. Nintendo Switch Online adds another classic Pokémon spinoff game
