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This may be the largest delisting in Nintendo history, and serves as a reminder the problem facing the all-digital future. As once these Nintendo Switch games are removed from the Nintendo eShop, they will be gone forever, though those that own them will continue to be able to download them and play them beyond the shutdown date. Whether this will continue indefinitely, remains to be seen.
The games in question are the entire catalog of Japanese publisher Entergram. Some of the games will be transferred to different publishers and be restored to the Nintendo eShop at a future date, but this is a minority of Entergram’s catalog. As for the full list of games impacted, it can be found here, courtesy of Delisted Games.
Entergram notes this will have no impact on retail copies of any of the given games. Meanwhile, it claims it will continue “user support” for each impacted game, and each game will go on sale before the delisting event as well. When exactly and how deep the discounts will be, is not disclosed by the Japanese publisher. It can only do this because none of the Nintendo Switch games in question have online elements, otherwise it would have to halt sales of each before the delisting.
