nintendoCollecting the Nintendo 3DS After the eShop Went DarkWhen Nintendo ended new purchases on the 3DS eShop in March 2023, it didn't just retire a storefront – it turned every cartridge into the only remaining door into the library. Pushmo, Intelligent Systems' brilliant block-pulling puzzler, was digital-only. So was Game Freak's oddball golf-poker hybrid Pocket Card Jockey. Neither ever got a cartridge, so on 3DS there's simply nothing left to buy.
Why the closure made cartridges the whole story
Even physical releases lost something. Fire Emblem:
