Age of the geek - nothing lasts forever

It's that time again.

Nintendo, continuing their decades long tradition of whittling away at the goodwill they earned in the 90s, made another harsh announcement last week.

Over the next year, Nintendo will be gradually shutting down their eShops for the Wii-U and 3DS family of systems. After that, it will no longer be possible to purchase downloadable games or content. Once that happens, it likely won't be long before the servers supporting the existing libraries will go down and it won't even be possible to re-download or update games in your library.