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In early April 2024, online play and other functionality that uses online communication will end for Nintendo 3DS* and Wii U software. This also includes online co-operative play, internet rankings, and data distribution.
We will announce a specific end date and time at a later date.
Please note that if an event occurs that would make it difficult to continue online services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software, we may have to discontinue services earlier than planned.
- This includes software exclusive to New Nintendo 3DS
Pokemon Bank will still continue to work, but who knows how long that will last.
It’s devastating news for Pokemon fans looking to legitimately collect every Pokemon. You essentially need online functionality to obtain every Vivillon form in X/Y. Lack of Friend Safaris is also a devastating blow to anyone trying to complete the Pokedex without importing Pokemon from other games. I
'm going to miss Wonder Trading. That’s how Gen 6 became my most played generation.
The Pokemon community is too obsessed to ignore this. They’ll reverse engineer the protocol and have a community run server in no time. People will need to hack their 3DS, but that’s not too hard and can be done entirely from software.
They are in progress ( pretendo ) still in closed beta.