via Nintendo: As of late March 2023, it will no longer be possible to make Nintendo eShop purchases for the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

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We thank you for supporting Nintendo eShop on Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

Additionally, you may also look back on your time with them via various play statistics:

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Update: The Pokémon company has responded to the departure of eShop purchases by offering Pokémon bank free for a limited amount of time after March 2023. You will need to have previously downloaded Pokémon bank before March 2023 to access the service. pokemon.co.jp/info/2022/02/220

Funny side-note. Nintendo also removed a chunk of text from their support article about archival of old games.

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@Violet I hope, if it doesn't exist already, someone makes a third-party self-hosted pokemon bank equivalent
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@Felthry @Violet there's PKSM available as homebrew for 3DS and Switch. On 3DS it supports gens 4 through 7 with fewer restrictions than Pokémon Bank, it can also even gen Pokémon and can import and export Pokémon in a format compatible with PKHeX, a save manager for PC that supports all mainline games

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