YouTuber Buys Nintendo Games For €21,000 To Save Old Games – “Nintendo Tried To Stop Us Multiple Times”

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A YouTuber bought €21,000 worth of Nintendo games and encountered numerous problems, some of them caused by Nintendo.

Who is the person you are talking about? Jirad “The Completionist” Khalil is an American content creator. He has 1.59 million subscribers on YouTube and is best known for completing games 100%. In the special challenge, he not only ends the story, but collects every item, does every side quest, no matter how unimportant, and talks to every NPC.

In general, he publishes videos on the topic of “gaming” on his channel. In addition to the completion videos, YouTube also creates lists of the “best” or “worst” games of a year.

YouTuber invests $22,000 and over 300 days

What games did the YouTuber buy? The Completionist has purchased all Nintendo eShop games on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.

The shop will be shut down on both consoles on March 27, 2023, which means that many games will no longer be available digitally. Nintendo games that will soon no longer be available for purchase digitally include some Pokémon titles released on the 3DS, such as X, Y, Sun and Moon.

In addition, the YouTuber bought all DLCs of the listed games in addition to all 3DS and Wii U games. The entire project cost him $22,791 and took 328 days to complete.

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The bank blocks the YouTuber’s credit card

What problems did he encounter? The YouTuber encountered many different problems with his venture.

  • No company wanted to sponsor his video. He had to find a way to fund over $20,000 in Nintendo games. As a result, he accepted various sponsorships in a number of other videos to indirectly fund the games.
  • The bank blocked the credit card:
  • The Completionist decided to purchase the eShop credit needed for the project in physical prepaid cards, believing that if he topped up his eShop credit online using a credit card on file, the bank would throw a spanner in the works.

    • Games that will no longer be available with the closure of the eShop also include Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire:

    Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire animated trailer

    “Nintendo has tried to stop us multiple times.”

    What problems did you have with Nintendo? When the YouTuber, with the help of his team, still managed to physically buy all the necessary prepaid cards, the problems on Nintendo’s side began.

    Captioning the video’s chapter, The Completionist said, “Nintendo made multiple attempts to stop us.”

  • You could load a maximum of €250 into the account, so every €250 you had to buy a few games first.
  • You could only download 10 games at a time.
  • After buying a certain number of games, they were kicked out of the system and couldn’t buy games again until the next day
  • Some publishers did not renew their licenses because the shop would close anyway. As a result, some games disappeared from the shop prematurely.
  • You could only download via WiFi – the 3DS does not offer a LAN connection directly from the eShop and the Wii U requires a separate USB LAN adapter.
  • The Wii U and 3DS can only store 300 icons, ie 300 games, on the device, even if external storage with significantly more storage space than required is connected.
  • So the YouTuber and his team had to buy more SD cards and external hard drives to store 300 games per storage unit.
  • You couldn’t buy DLCs from the eShop itself on the 3DS, you had to launch the games and buy the DLCs there.
  • Some games required a certain amount of game progress before being able to purchase a DLC.
  • Super Mario Brothers 2 required completing the first world
  • Fire Emblem: Fates required 6 chapters to be played
  • Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney requires beating the game before purchasing any DLC. That’s an average of 25 hours of gameplay, according to The Completionist.

    • Why did he buy the games? At the beginning of the video, The Completionist states that he loves playing and collecting video games. Accordingly, he found the message that the eShop on 3DS and Wii U would be closed “creepy”.

    Then the YouTuber came up with the idea to save these games from being lost forever and buy every game in the store. At the end of the video he goes into more detail about his motivation behind it and says:

    “Why should I try so hard and spend so much money that I don’t have? Well, because developers all over the world have been doing just that. They put a lot of effort and money into bringing their games to the various eShops.”

    Not only old Nintendo consoles and the associated games can inspire. MeinMMO editor Benedikt Schlotman also noticed this last year:

    I smiled at them – now the Nintendo Switch is my purchase of the year 2022

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