Why did they disable many online functions in the gen 4 and 5 games ?

Apr. 5, 2015

why did they make wifi trading and many things unusable in gen 4 and gen 5?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

Game companies often discontinue online features for older games after a while. This usually happens because they want customers to purchase a newer game or system, which were both the case when the 3DS and X/Y released.

Keeping online features running for old games requires additional servers, and costs companies more money than only having online for the latest games.

It is strange that the wifi shut down, but there could different reasons why:

Two reasons I could think of.

Hope I helped! :)

nintendo actually shut down all ds game servers

server shutdown notice on this site