Rainbow Road’s closed.
In fact, one player was racing on Rainbow Road as Mario when the service shut down.
That meant they couldn’t reach the finish line and complete their last race.
Then, the bottom screen revealed that online communication had been disrupted.
With online support ending, too, both platforms are fully offline experiences.
The only exception for now is Pokemon Bank and Poke Transporter.
This topic is important to Microsoft, asXbox has put together a new team focused on game preservation.
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