A YouTuber has spent more than $22,000 digitally purchasing every Wii U and 3DS game ahead of their Nintendo eShop shutdowns next week.

As reported by VGC, The Completionist uploaded a video sharing the endeavour which took 328 days to complete. Including DSi Ware, the Virtual Console, and DLC, the project saw 866 Wii U and 1,547 3DS games purchased in total.

The completed project, totalling a Wii U with three external hard drives and a 3DS with four micro SD cards, will be donated to the Video Game History Foundation to preserve the digital offerings that will otherwise cease to exist when the stores shut down on March 27.

The Completionist spent $22,791 spread across 464 eShop cards, which amassed to 1.2 terabytes of Wii U games and 267 gigabytes of 3DS, translated to 2,136,689 blocks (Nintendo’s own data measurement system).

These incredible numbers were just half the battle for The Completionist, however, as the Nintendo eShops of old don’t run as smoothly as the Switch’s version. The software is clunkier, slower, has limited search functionality, and even adding funds can get complicated.

Limits to purchasing eShop gift cards exist to prevent scams and such, meaning The Competionist’s team had to visit a ton of different stores to acquire the amount needed. The eShop also has $250 cap, meaning only so much could be added at a time before they had to start buying games.

Additionally, only around ten games could be purchased at a time before the 3DS forces users to download them, and it also restricts the total spend per day. Purchasing DLC on the 3DS must also be done in-game, with some games requiring partial or total completion before any additional content can be purchased.

The Competionist explains every hiccup in the video, but needless to say the process wasn’t plain sailing.

For those who do still have their Wii U or 3DS, be sure to purchase anything left on the wishlist ahead of March 27. IGN has compiled lists of the best Wii U games, which includes Super Mario Maker and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, and the best 3DS games, which includes Fire Emblem Awakening and Bravely Default.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK news editor. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

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There’s a lot of buzz about Artificial Intelligence(A.I.) these days. Some of us want to re-invent the Luddite Cause as well. What’s a Luddite and why re-invent it?

At the turn of the century in England possibly the greatest moment in human endeavors happened during the Industrial Revolution, a time when technology found its place as the new unannounced “God”, replacing rural agriculture with production schedules. The population began to move to the big city for employment in the many manufacturing facilities available at the time. What was normal and customary became outdated and shoved aside. The business people of the time knew nothing about human rights, safety within the workplace, or proper pay for the work done. It seemed to many that the new god of invention and technology was not a savior of humanity, but its oppressor instead. A group of like-minded English and Frenchmen gathered and attacked the premises of this technological miracle. Parts of humanity declared war upon technology, uncontrolled raw capitalism, and society’s evils. These people were known as Luddites.

Today our society faces a new challenge that threatens us in many ways. A.I. generated reality has come to life, replacing the norms of hard work, study, and personal application with A.I. generated Art, Codes to generate essays for students. CHAT GPT offers customers the ability to ask it questions and the computer system will write essays, work reports, studies, poems, and the such. A.I. is being applied to our healthcare systems, transportation, and workplace systems too. Has A.I. become so good at what it does that it can replace humanity?

Imagine going to your local church hoping for a well delivered sermon passionately delivered by loudspeaker and A.I. written and delivered too. You go to your place of business where through a computer, phone calls, and texts you are advised, directed, and managed by A.I. Not a person but a machine program. Fear is spreading among your fellow citizens that through A.I. applications the human experience is missing. Evidence of human emotions, reflections, expressions of hard work, and challenging human experience can disappear in time, replaced by cold efficiency and business terminology.

Has a Luddite been born today? Do you trust those who program and unleash Artificial Intelligence upon us all?
A.I. exists to make a profit for someone else. So if an enterprise can be more profitable, will you or your fellow employees face layoffs and possible replacement? How will this improve the planet’s present situation? High populations with jobs being replaced by A. Intelligence. What will unemployed surplus individuals do with their free time now? When the fishermen of Newfoundland could no longer fish their coasts due to overfishing, over a hundred thousand of them were retrained as computer programmers, with no place to practice their new profession.

When the profit margin is more important than human beings’ self-respect and rights, a situation opens for A.I. insertion. Is A.I. a friend or foe?

“So you say you want a revolution, well you know Sky Net will be with us soon”.

Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
skaszab@yahoo.ca