Random: Nintendogs + Cats Returns To The 3DS eShop In North America

Correct me if im wrong, but I think I remember this game being pulled because of a memory issue that would overflow the system and allow full control to modders who used this game as a gateway to piracy. This was a separate incident from box ninja I believe, but same type of exploits used

i forgot this game even existed

This has me wondering about a Switch installment.

Really glad they went to the effort of putting it back up rather than ignoring it because it's such an old game. Maybe we'll eventually see Freakyforms and/or Tetris back up there

I have the game! Was a bit of a disappointment though...

Wait what? It was gone?

They just needed a moment’s paws

What a timely digital release. Only 8 years after its retail release.

Must be a very slow news day...the 3DS that Nintendo is slowly letting die has had a game that's 8 years old reappear on the Nintendo e-Shop.

This article makes the one about the guy sending his Switch in for repair and not getting his joy con's back,only when reading the article further Nintendo were repairing them as well and it was going to take a while longer,so they were going to send them back to the customer at a later date,seem like hot news.

No thanks
Im not interested at all.

@johnvboy I think you have it the wrong way around

@Morph,

I think both articles are competing for the non news award.

The article thumbnail made it seem like my screen was dirty.

I mildly hate you for that.

They should put it on Switch...

I love the Switch but prefer the 3ds

Wait, NoA actually raised the price of the game after the Selects release?! Isn't that the opposite point of the release?

I want to see a Nintendogs/Cooking Mama crossover

Come 2 Switch plz.

@antdickens,

I do understand that,but come on this does not even qualify as non news.

@Liam_Doolan,

Only banter fella,as somebody said we can't have big hitting news all the time in each and every article,you guys do have 7 days to fill with stuff...so some of these articles are o.k now and again.

I wish they would make Steel Diver available digitally. I’d love to get rid of my game card.

And how is this not news? If the article had been about Project X Zone or Tetris Axis and Tetris GB returning to the eShop, it wouldn’t be getting comments like this.

“Oh, it’s a game I don’t like, no one cares about this.”

I wondered if these would show again after noticing that My Nintendo award on Friday. I never picked these up but enjoyed the originals on the DS.

Yup, they’ve been back for a few months now.

The funny part is they were cheaper before they got removed, AND you got a unique 3ds theme for purchasing them back then too.

Shoot, I bought physical for about $25 a few months ago because I couldn’t get it on the eShop. I really wanted it because Nintendogs was my first DS game and a friend lost it.

I hope we’ll get a Switch version with more breeds.

I love all the commenters the always pop up saying "slow news day" when an article doesn't interest them. Must be nice to be such constant critics. Maybe they would be able to run a better site on their own and fill it with all the news they deem to be relevant.

I hope I still have my copy of French Bulldog... I remember playing this game a lot as a kid ☺️

This is really random... perhaps a sign a new Nintendogs game is in the work? ... Probably not, but I can dream I guess.

It is news because Nintendo removed it and it only took three years to put it back. Some people wanted the digital version, for them is good news. The pricing evolution is also weird, Nintendo does weird things that nobody understands.

you know the 3ds is on it's last legs when news about it is put in a Random category

And with this surely a bunch of new games will be developed for the 3DS since this saved the 3DS!

When did it even leave?

@MysticGengar at some point after they started selling it as a Nintendo select. Considering the original digital price was lower than the selects price point, they probably didn’t want it to compete with itself.

Also apparently there were some security concerns with the digital version of the game, so win win for Nintendo.

This is exactly why Nintendo lags behind everyone else. They are still clueless about how to run an online service. Their eShop has gotten worse since the Wii and 3DS. How does that even happen? The Switch eShop is like an unfinished beta. You have to know what you want going in and that is just garbage design. They also still do not offer the option to download every game although that has improved since 3DS, but needs to keep improving and allow demos for all games indefinitely, instead of this temporary demo crap. Nintendo needs to get some advice on Online services because the Switch Service continues to be a joke with no SNES on the horizon and N64 being years to decades out. They have no clue how much money they could make. Instead they try to resell us games we already got and own. How are Nintendo fans this ignorantly fanboyish and keep buying the same games?

Why did they raise the price?! I know it’s just 5$ more, but those 5$ could’ve been used for a better 3DS game.(like TLoDW)