Nintendo's 3DS & Wii U Image Share Services Have Now Ended

I had no idea when I bought my first 3ds, at 25 years of age, that it would turn into one of my favorite consoles of all time. It made the best Zelda games better. It introduced me and addicted me to Fire Emblem and SMT. Don't even get me started on Etrian Odyssey. Stella Glow is still the best SJRPG there is and 2d platformers in 3d just look special. I actually used to watch Stranger Things on my 3ds! I will always love you, you strange, wonderful, little thing.

This is the worst day of my life, and I've been to DashCon and TanaCon.

Wait, this was a thing??? How come I never knew about this?!

@HotGoomba You have? If not that is one of the greatest comments I've ever seen.

I didn’t even know this existed.

Today, is the day, of a great, fallen soldier.

this was how i transferred a bunch of AC pics to share online. it was inconvenient and clunky like all of nintendos online endeavors, but their starting point nonetheless. wild to think how easy the switch makes it now

If that's what I think it is, I tried it once or twice, but it was easier to just go to a website and upload your screenshots/photos directly.

Every time I see an article like this, it makes me think of how in 5 years they will strip away, one by one, all the online features of the switch. And how will anyone play their digital games and DLC (that they paid so much for) on their secondary systems when Nintendo discontinues online features for the switch? 🫤

@Kiyata That's going to be a lot longer than 5 years from now. Heck you can still redownload your games on the Wii, over a decade after Nintendo moved on from the console.

I wish they had a community board on the switch

I just logged into Farcebook directly and posted an image there earlier this week playing Persona FE. Surely those methods should still work? You don't specifically need the actual Nintendo Site.

Oh oh...what's next? Will someone from BMW come to my house and take one wheel from my car thanking me for using it? What an era...

@strollin_stu Agreed, the Switch is funkless. Absolute funk deficit. Somebody at Nintendo could slap together a nice background tune in a single afternoon and it would do wonders to jazz up the experience of using the console.

@tofuman86 Homebrew is the future. Community efforts to enhance and preserve the 3DS and past games far outstrip anything Nintendo could do at this point.

I wasn't aware this was a thing. Whenever I wanted a screenshot, I'd always add it to a Miiverse post, then access that post via a web browser.

Hol' up, I thought 3DS image sharing (and coincidentally the console's only official screenshot mechanic) was gone with Miiverse.

@nhSnork On 3DS ,you could post photos saved on the SD card online through Nintendo's image sharing website. If memory serves, it was i.nintendo.net or something like that. You'd use the browser and go onto this website (I think there was a link on the browser's homepage too).

EDIT: On Wii U, I think you can still upload images directly to image hosting websites, such as imgbox.com

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@RainbowGazelle oh, right, I kinda forgot about photos, mostly associating the 3DS cameras with the AR features.😅

@nhSnork Some games such as Animal Crossing, Tomodachi Life and Miitopia let you save pics to the SD card too. So you can upload those as well.

@tofuman86 That comparison doesn't make sense. You can still use your 3DS without this feature. I didn't even know this feature existed. You can not drive a BMW with only three wheels.

@BTB20 the exageration was intentional To put it more in a stone-age-cave-man logic: we paid for a 3DS with certain features...yet one after another these features are being turned off/disabled. It's inevitable, I know but it's quite dumb at the same time.

Can you still "send" images on Wii U as files on emails?
That's how I got my screenshots on Wii U after the Miiverse closure.

As fas as I know, on the 3DS you were limited to sharing screenshots only from games that supported the feature like Animal Crossing, Smash Bros., Miitopia, etc. When Miiverse was around it was an almost free-for-all on screenshot sharing.

@Maximumbeans for real

The best console of all time... I will always love you! ❤️ R.I.P.

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HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND…
It’s a sad time folks, even if no one actually used Image Share for anything outside of Wii U Miiverse, its a sad time….

I keep becoming reminded that this is coming to an end. Need to pick up the FE DLC for the games. Luckily I won't need to get dlc for theatrhythm since its coming to switch and ps4

The 3ds and wii u are a big knot made of yarn strings. Nintendo is cutting some of those string then they just say screw it and cut them all

For those like me still making art or playing animal crossing that want to share to twitter here are some tips

You can still remove the 3DS's SD card and place It Into a computer to retrieve the photos

On Wii U you would need a compatible website you can upload the current screen as a photo and download It later on PC or mobile

@dluxxx Bro I share all of that love, you summed up just how incredible the 3DS is. Good point about being introduced to series too, I'm the same. Discovered Fire Emblem and SMT like you, as well as Metroid and Kirby and it also brought me back into Pokemon.

Still need to try Stella Glow but I'm intrigued after your recommendation.