Before Nintendo shut down the Wii U’s online servers, a speedrunner in Xenoblade Chronicles X managed to set one final world record, making it the last record ever set.
Last month, Nintendo shut down online servers for the Wii U and 3DS, which was annoying at best and downright destructive at worst. This rendered many games completely unplayable, and the online modes of others inaccessible. Xenoblade Chronicles X was one such game that had an online mode, but now you can no longer play it due to the server shutdown. It’s a lesser-known entry in the popular RPG series, but many were hoping it would get a Switch port (or perhaps a Switch 2 port right now) at some point in the future. It turns out that speedrunner YMG-C actually ran the game’s online mode one last time before the servers were shut down, and broke a world record in the process, as one fan shared on Twitter (thanks, GamesRadar).
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As the Wii U servers are now offline, it is completely impossible for anyone else to speedrun the game online, meaning that YMG-C will hold the world record forever. However, if no one else decides to do it before the servers go down, it won’t be a big deal as they were the previous world record holder anyway. Their previous record was 2 hours and 57 minutes, and the new record is a minute shorter than the previous record at 2 hours and 56 minutes, and will stand forever. Even if the game does get a Switch port, the speedrun category will be carried across various platforms, and since the Wii U is a generation behind, this will obviously lead to differences in loading times and so on.
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While a Xenoblade Chronicles X port might be a bit of a pipe dream, that doesn’t mean there won’t be new games in the works: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was released in 2022 and even received some DLC the following year, so the series still has a future somewhere at Nintendo.