75 of the pokemon back catalogue will be unavailable commercially once nintendo closes the 3ds an wii u eshopsthis figure comes from phil salvador of video game history foundation who tweeted a graph that demonstrates what percentage of pokemon games will be available to purchase from nintendo once the 3ds and wii u eshops close down for good this month as you can see from the tweet below only 25 soon to be 26 of pokemon games will be available to purchase in any form from march 27 heres the data if you want to see it game list is taken from bulbapedia quick correction to the graph theres 88 games here not 89 pictwittercomu1kihfqj1dfebruary 27 2023see moreif youre wondering the games included in this 26 are all playable on the nintendo switch so that includes pokemon scarlet and violet pokemon legends arceus pokemon sword and sheild and so on it also includes those available through nintendos virtual consoles so pokemon stadium 1 and 2 via the nintendo 64 emulator and soon the pokemon trading card game on the gameboy emulator as for the games well be losing according to salvadors graph itll soon be much trickier to find the likes of pokemon red and blue pokemon yellow pokemon gold and silver pokemon x and y pokemon sun and moon detective pikachu a bunch of pokemon mystery dungeon games and many more this has understandably got to be disappointing news for longtime pokemon fans who may soon not be able to play some of their favorite games in the series theres always a hope that nintendo will bring more pokemon games to the nintendo switch via nintendo switch online but since there isnt a ds 3ds or wii virtual console just yet we may have to wait a while before we get to revisit classic pokemon games with nintendo closing 3ds and wii u digital stores where does that leave video game preservation