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Interesting timing. Nintendo just shutdown Mariokart Tour on mobile. I went back to my Nintendo Wii which was already modded, and updated it to the latest modded hacks and I was amazed to see more software, stability, and even online gaming brought back!

Hopefully their port of Mac OS gets put in the Open Shop Channel!

Open Shop Channel: https://oscwii.org WiiLink for online gaming: https://wiilink.ca

The Wii was truly the peak of gaming consoles.

Games still came on disk so there wasn’t the madness of endless buggy updates (disks had one opportunity to be bug free so quality was at a higher standard) and internet connectivity was not guaranteed, so there was no way for micro transactions.

However, internet connectivity was available, so things like optional online play were still possible, as well as some basic user generated content.

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I'll forgive you for thinking Wii was the peak because people are obviously biased based on the time they grew up. For me it was the SNES/Genesis era. Or arguably PlayStation 1.
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> Nintendo just shutdown Mariokart Tour on mobile.

Eek my son is not gonna be happy about that