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Super Mario Maker for the Wii U will be delisted next year, online services to shut down

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If you're still using your Nintendo Wii U, a major title is about to be removed from the console's online storefront. Nintendo has announced that it will be delisting the original Super Mario Maker early next year, on January 13th, 2021. The game will be permanently removed from the Wii U eShop, and will no longer be available for purchase. That's not all, either--the game's online functionality will also be shut down a couple of months later on March 31st, 2021. After this date, you will no longer be able to upload courses to the game, look up your bookmarked courses, or rank others' courses.

Super Mario Maker originally released in 2015 for the Nintendo Wii U, and received a port to the Nintendo 3DS, with the latter lacking certain features from the console release. The game was suceeded by its sequel, Super Mario Maker 2, which released for the Nintendo Switch in 2019.

Discontinuation of certain services

From March 31st 2021, it will no longer be possible to upload courses in Super Mario Maker for Wii U. On the same day, the Super Mario Maker Bookmark website will also close.

It will still be possible to play courses uploaded before the service discontinuation.

In preparation for the discontinuation of these online services, Super Mario Maker for Wii U will be removed from sale on Nintendo eShop on January 13th 2021. It will still be possible to redownload the game after this date.

There is no impact on Super Mario Maker 2 for Nintendo Switch.

We would like to thank all players for supporting Super Mario Maker for Wii U over the past five years.

Planned service end date: March 31st 2021

Please note that depending on the circumstances, these services may be discontinued earlier than the above-mentioned date.

Services that will end

  • The ability to upload courses in Super Mario Maker for Wii U
  • The Super Mario Maker Bookmark website
    Due to this, the following features within the software’s Course World will also become unavailable:
    • Updating the ranking of liked courses
    • Looking up your bookmarked courses
An error message will be displayed when trying to access these discontinued services after their end date.
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jt_1258 said:
on a side note, I do find it interesting how they are opting to delist the wii u version entirely but leave the 3ds version...they very well could have just added a disclaimer to the eshop page
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Its because they are removing features from the game. In a good few countries it becomes illegal to remove features and still sell the game. The 3ds version doesn't have anything removed from it that it had when it first came out. Remember that Sony got sued by a number of people when they removed the ability to install Linux on the PS3 many years ago.
 
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Mario Maker 2 is much better, but it woulda been nice if there was some kind of upgrade path to migrate original Mario Maker account stuff into Mario Maker 2 accounts... Also the costumes and event courses... too bad they werent still available in 2 somehow..
 
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AmandaRose said:
Its because they are removing features from the game. In a good few countries it becomes illegal to remove features and still sell the game. The 3ds version doesn't have anything removed from it that it had when it first came out. Remember that Sony got sued by a number of people when they removed the ability to install Linux on the PS3 many years ago.
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ahh, I'm not to in touch with non us legal stuff so I guess fair point. on one hand they could repackage/brand it as being what it will be after the service goes down of just being a super mario player...basically what the 3ds game is...on the other hand that would actually involve some level of effort for a dead system

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AmandaRose said:
@Chary surprised you didn't point out the importance of how March the 31st is a terrible day for Mario fans.

On that day, Super Mario 3D All-Stars will no longer be sold physically or digitally; Super Mario Bros. 35's getting booted off the Switch eShop; the new Super Mario Game & Watch system will no longer be available to buy; and now poor old Super Mario Maker's having its online services shut down.
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good grief...that really is doomsday...gotta wonder why they are tieing so much to one day :/
 
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Okay. I'd rather they offer some sort of alternative instead of saying "sorry, you're SOL"... But, this isn't a surprise move. With MM2 on their newest hardware, you really should have seen this coming. I feel they're trying to get people to shift into the Switch rather than stay on the WiiU.
 
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jt_1258 said:
ahh, I'm not to in touch with non us legal stuff so I guess fair point. on one hand they could repackage/brand it as being what it will be after the service goes down of just being a super mario player...basically what the 3ds game is...on the other hand that would actually involve some level of effort for a dead system

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good grief...that really is doomsday...gotta wonder why they are tieing so much to one day :/
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It's the end of the financial year so I guess it's something to do with that.
 
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simbin said:
wtf how will it be playable, unless you can download and store all the online maps?
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simple, you just play them...why won't people read that the levels that are still on the servers will remain available to play after the disable uploading of levels and the book mark page
 
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I don't think people get that the whole online service isn't going down? It's essentially just going read-only. Which, for a game on a dead system, doesn't seem like the end of the world. I can't imagine many people are still uploading courses. In which regard, the 3DS version should be fine too.
 
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now watch them attack custom servers (that only results cause official goes offline) i know nothing last forever but attacking custom servers would be the final nail in nintendo's coffin (btw thought there was a dmca provision protecting custom servers if a) no copyrighted code is used and b) the official servers go offline
 
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Ev1lbl0w said:
I still can't believe Super Mario 3D All Stars is time-exclusive.
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3D All Stars might be "time exclusive" but Nintendo has history with "time exclusive" digital content - just like with Lost Levels on Wii, they'll no-doubt make it available again in the future, with no explanation whatsoever. Even if they don't, I'm sure the three games will be available separately.

Imo 3D All Stars is a BS release because it only includes 3 of the 4 games it should include.
 
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robman62 said:
Don’t buy digital from Nintendo...I broke this rule with a few switch games hoping it will be different
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Buying it digital or physical doesn't change anything. If you bought it digital, you still can download the game even if it's unlisted.
 
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Kwyjor said:
Thank goodness someone bothered to read the freakin' post.
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Don't worry, I did.
I hope u are aware, that Nintendo is always keeping only a few levels online at the same time?
Mine for example always got deleated after a few month. That was a fact from the very beginning.
Also still the online functionality is taken away, even if there's still 10000 levels "frozen" in the cloud. That's not the point. Especially not in general.
 
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