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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
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.