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April 8th, 2024 marks the end of an era. Today, Nintendo has permanently shut down the Wii U and 3DS Online Servers.

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I've heard plenty of **** since the Brawl era about Waluigi in regards to Smash, but "people don't actually want Waluigi in Smash, they want an original character based on their idea of Waluigi" takes the goddamn cake.
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I think that's exactly what people used to say about Daisy before she got in Smash lmao.

While there is a lot of fanmade Waluigi lore out there based on gag animations or BTS interviews, and you do tend to see those reflected in Waluigi Smash movesets (the "rose-bearing romantic" and "self-pitying loser" characterisations being what's coming to mind for me), the basic conceit of the average Waluigi moveset - "petty trickster cartoon villain" - is plainly canon. If you can imagine a Multiversus moveset for Wile E. Coyote, you can also imagine a 100% character-faithful Smash moveset for Waluigi
While I don't think preservation of any commercially-released work should have to be justified, I think shovelware preservation is especially important because those are the historical context of many consoles, especially Nintendo. The average Wii experience was not Mario Galaxy and Rhythm Heaven, it was Ninjabread Man and Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal - this doesn't mean everyone needs to be making passionate video essays about said games, but if someone 10 years from now wants to immerse themselves in the historical context of the Wii, they need to have these games accessible, and not just the greatest hits, to get the full picture - not in a backhanded "oh, that'll make you appreciate Twilight Princess" way, but in a "this is how most Wii players played Wii" way. The same goes for almost all of Nintendo and Sega's consoles with maybe the exception of the N64, the earlier 2 PlayStations, and a lesser extent for every other console

Note that the individual games named were simply used to represent the wider concept of shovelware, I am not suggesting that LTAA and NBM sold better than SMG or RHF, as much as just that more people played shovelware as a totality than the "timeless first parties" as a totality.
Looking into the history of Virtual Console releases and marketing to address a response to one of my posts on an unpopular opinions thread and JESUS CHRIST THEY WERE SELLING N64 GAMES FOR $11 DOLLARS IN 2015.
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