

Well, there are a few things but the big one is the eReader levels.

While some might not like the Advance version due to the extra voices added there is one thing the GBA version has that the NES does not. 3 is playable on the Switch – but the Advance version is not. I know what you’re thinking, Super Mario Bros. These games needed the Wii Remote to use the pointer, and while the Joy-Con acts as a pointer, it’s not the same. It took 8 years in the lifetime of the Wii for Nintendo to bring these two the Wii and who knows when they’ll be available again. This includes games from systems that aren’t available at all on the Switch as well. While Nintendo boasts to have 130 games on the Nintendo Switch Online service, there are in fact at least 300 games on the Virtual Console (here in Australia) at least. Unfortunately, we never got a web-based eShop in Australia for the Wii U, so I can’t link you directly to these. These games aren’t gone forever, but they’re going to get a lot harder to find and possibly impossible to play in their original forms. A lot of the games on this list are Virtual Console games, already out of print by decades and are hundreds of dollars on eBay compared to $10 or so on the eShop.įor all its faults the Wii U had a wide range of input options that makes it versatile to play games from a long span of Nintendo history. Nintendo’s ending support for buying new things from the Wii U eShop from “late March 2023” and that means a whole load of games will be going to go up in value physically because there’s nowhere else to buy them from anymore.Ĭlosing the eShop doesn’t mean these games are gone forever, but as they get older they will get harder to find and for a decent price.
