The lights are on
Last year, Nintendo called it quits on the Miiverse, the Wii U and 3DS message board that had drawings, text posts, and screenshots for people to share with fellow owners. Now, fans and engineers have officially archived those bright few years of innocent questions of why can't Metroid crawl.
Lead by Drastic Actions, the full archive is on a website called Archiverse. The entire thing came out to 17 terabytes of data, or 17,000,000 MB, made up of 216,901,986 Replies,133,003,599 Posts, 75,955,135 Screenshots, 72,135,190 Drawings, and 8,278,693 User Profiles.
You can access the website and search through to find all the posts about water you can shake a stick at. Nintendo also had individual profiles available to download, but the deadline for requesting and/or accessing them has passed.
Our TakeIt's a shame that nothing has replaced the Miiverse. It wasn't perfect, but it was unique and innocent and naive in its own special way.
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The Miiverse was one of the few things Nintendo should’ve kept from the WiiU. It was Facebook for Nintendo fans without the garbage. I miss it on the Switch severely.
I think a replacement is inevitable. One of these days Nintendo will actually roll out its online service. I think there will be a "Switchverse" or something with it.
“The entire thing came out to 17 terabytes of data, or 17,000,000 MB,”
Well, hopefully they based that storage off of decimal and not binary.
Anyways, I never got into Miiverse, but it’s a shame that it’s gone nonetheless.
Dang! I gotta go and look for my sweet meme posts from Splatoon!
I actually liked Miiverse and I think it would have been a good starting off point for the Switch online service. Nintendo should have kept it and improved on the formula.