00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're taking a look at 10 great products that
00:10Nintendo decided to discontinue, much to the chagrin of everyone else.
00:14Number 10, Club Nintendo.
00:24During the 6th and 7th console generations, Nintendo had this exceptional rewards program
00:40for its players.
00:41Buy a Nintendo game, look for a Club Nintendo leaflet with a code inside the game's case,
00:45enter said code on the Club Nintendo website, and you get points.
00:48Simple.
00:49For those that took part in this program, users could use their points to earn exclusive products
00:53that were not sold anywhere else.
00:55Such products ranged from Animal Crossing, playing cards, and other fun toys, to exclusive
01:00downloadable games like Doc Lewis' Punch Out and Grill Out with Ultra Hand.
01:04This alone was why so many people were a little annoyed when Nintendo shut down the program in 2015.
01:15Number 9, Wii Channels.
01:16You can find out the weather around the world.
01:19Just point the Wii remote and choose a map location to view the forecast for that area.
01:23Channels were the most distinct feature of the Wii.
01:26Booting up your console and seeing all of them perfectly aligned and waiting to be clicked on
01:30made it feel like you were living in a cozy Jetsons-like future.
01:33But what folks really loved about the channels were some of the fun gimmicks they carried.
01:37Check out global news and weather forecasts.
01:39Look at the different Miis people have made.
01:41Take part in fun polls with a competitive edge to them.
01:44It was all just some good old fun.
01:46This sort of charm is what disappointed some folks when booting up their Switch consoles
01:50for the first time.
01:51As much as we do love the Switch, yes, the dashboard is insanely boring.
01:56Perhaps the Wii spoiled us a bit in that regard.
02:02Number 8, F-Zero Series.
02:12Now, one might be quick to say that Nintendo didn't discontinue F-Zero.
02:16After all, we got a brand new game in 2023 in the form of F-Zero 99.
02:20But here's the problem.
02:21No one was asking for a battle royale starring Captain Falcon and Company.
02:25What the fans want is a new tried and true F-Zero game like we got in the old days.
02:30In that case, we haven't had a new proper F-Zero game since 2003.
02:34Sure, we can play most of the originals via Switch Online,
02:37but it's been literally decades since we got F-Zero GX,
02:40which was a technical marvel for the GameCube with its visuals, speed, and performance.
02:44Maybe the Switch 2's enhancements will open the door for something cool
02:47so we can show everyone our moves.
02:49Number 7, Chibi-Robo Series.
03:01Anyone who has played the 2005 original Chibi-Robo will tell you how captivating and silly this gem of the game was.
03:16Between the daytime cycle of cleaning and collecting items and the oddities that occurred at night,
03:21there was so much love and fun packed into this adventure.
03:24Now, where did we mention gardening, photography, and 2D platforming in that sentence?
03:28That is where Nintendo went wrong.
03:30Whereas F-Zero was ignored for years upon years, Nintendo gave Chibi-Robo a few more games, but in the wrong ways.
03:36Park Patrol, Photo Finder, and Ziplash may have been neat in their own unique ways,
03:41but these were not the games that fans wanted for Chibi-Robo,
03:44and it has made this small fanbase really, really frustrated with the company.
03:55Number 6, My Nintendo Rewards.
03:57In February 2025, Nintendo announced the closure of My Nintendo Rewards, the successor to Club Nintendo.
04:03Now, in all honesty, the closure itself is not what drew ire from some folks.
04:07The irritation mostly stemmed from just how lackluster the program was compared to Club Nintendo.
04:12Granted, My Nintendo had some neat rewards here and there between bite-sized downloadable titles,
04:17digital goodies like wallpapers and coupons, and even some physical goods like keychains, postcards, and pins.
04:23But these were nowhere near as compelling as the physical products Club Nintendo members got to redeem back in the day.
04:29So people's frustration is mostly tied to the half-hearted attempt with My Nintendo,
04:33and how it lasted as long as it did.
04:35Number 5, Star Fox Series.
04:37Not including Star Fox 2's release on the mini SNES in 2019, we haven't had a new Star Fox game since 2016,
04:53and it has greatly aggravated fans to say the least.
04:56Much of the Star Fox community have been begging for a new game, or at the very least, ports of Star Fox Adventures and Assault.
05:02Yet, Nintendo hasn't said a word about Fox and the team since the failure that was 2016's Star Fox Zero on Wii U.
05:09And it's a real shame, because at the time of this video, the Switch has sold over a hundred million units, which is staggering.
05:15The IP could have seen a massive resurgence, the same way Metroid and Pikmin did.
05:19Alas, Nintendo has chosen to leave the franchise dormant.
05:22We guess Zero really did scare them off of Star Fox.
05:36Number 4, Super Mario Bros. 35.
05:45One of the two games made to commemorate Mario's 35th anniversary, Super Mario Bros. 35 was one of the coolest online games Nintendo published.
05:53Developed by Eureka, the studio behind Tetris 99, players could race each other through various levels of Super Mario Bros.
05:59to see who was the fastest and nimblest plumber in the Mushroom Kingdom.
06:03Sadly, the game was not long for this world.
06:05Super Mario Bros. 35 was only around a meager six months, having launched in October 2020 and being discontinued in April 2021.
06:13The small but dedicated player base was steamed about this, and this combined with another entry we will see in a bit,
06:19caused some to raise concerns over game preservation.
06:26Number 3, Virtual Console.
06:36The second Nintendo announced Switch Online in 2018 was the second we knew that the Virtual Console would be dead.
06:41For those who didn't know or are too young to know, Nintendo used to sell retro games through a section of their digital storefronts, dubbed the Virtual Console.
06:48This corner of the store would allow you to purchase old Nintendo games a la carte, unlike the now subscription-based service you get with Switch Online, where you pay an annual fee for access to these games.
06:57Some folks got mad because of the Switch to a subscription model, while others were mad because it was the only way to play their childhood favorites.
07:04Fast forward to 2024 when Nintendo revealed that more than 34 million players are subscribed to Switch Online.
07:1134 million people paying 20 or 50 bucks a year? How about that, huh?
07:14How about that, huh?
07:22Number 2, Super Mario 3D All-Stars.
07:24To celebrate this 35th anniversary of Mario, Nintendo released this collection of 3D Mario games containing three amazing classics.
07:39Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy.
07:43Unfortunately for us, this was a monkey's paw situation, as Super Mario 3D All-Stars was a limited release for some weird reason.
07:50This annoyed so many folks that some went so far as to criticize Nintendo for supposedly creating false scarcity.
07:56Regardless of the backlash, Nintendo moved forward with their plans and pulled the game from store shelves six months after release.
08:02Not long after, the company revealed that despite the outrage, Super Mario 3D All-Stars sold more than 9 million copies.
08:08That was some anger, huh?
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08:331. The Wii U and 3DS eShops
08:37Of all the products Nintendo discontinued, there has never been more outrage than when the company announced the closure of the Wii U and 3DS eShops.
08:44To their credit, they did give players roughly a year's notice to buy whatever digital titles they wanted, many of which were deeply discounted by their publishers.
08:52Despite the sudden public outcry for the preservation of games, Nintendo moved forward with the closure in March 2023, erasing hundreds of titles that never saw physical releases.
09:01And now, some companies are doing what they can to port their old 3DS games to modern hardware.
09:06Was there a discontinued product that made you upset with Nintendo? Let us know down in the comments.
09:10The rinds!
09:28The rinds!
09:29The rinds!
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