We're down to the final survivor of the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS online shutdown, as the last connected player keeps on trucking on dead Mario Kart 7 servers over 100 days later
Jul. 18, 2024The last player standing says it’s “a bittersweet moment”
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The survivor in question is Twitter user @fishguy6564, who has remained connected to Mario Kart 7’s online mode for over three months. Up until May 13, fishguy6564 wasn’t left alone in racing game purgatory, as a second racer, Marioiscool246, had also managed to stay online, with the two setting up bots to race against each other repeatedly.Tragedy struck after 13,151 races, though, as Marioiscool246’s 3DS crashed, leaving poor fishguy6564 to watch victory laps solo.
At that point, there were still three people other than fishguy6564 hanging in there, but two months later, they’ve all but disconnected, leaving the final Mario Kart 7 player behind. Asannouncedby Nintendo Network After Hours Discord server owner @GaffsNotLaffs, the most recent to fall was SlitherySheep, who went offline from the Wii U version of Super Mario Maker earlier this week, “marking the true end” of online play on Nintendo’s previous-gen home console. Now, just fishguy6564 remains.
“It’s definitely a bittersweet moment becoming the final person connected,” fishguy6564writeson Twitter. “Thank you SlitherySheep for staying on with me for this long.”
So now the question remains, just how long will the final Mario Kart 7 player be able to keep online playsort ofalive on the 3DS servers? Back in May, theNintendo Network After Hours group managed to beat a 14-year-old recordpreviously held byHalo 2 fans who kept clinging to the FPS for 25 daysafter the original Xbox Live servers were meant to go down. With that in mind, at this point, it’s now up to fishguy6564 alone to set that new record. No pressure, huh?
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