But while that's a significant annoyance for consumers holding onto their old hardware, current rules mean it could cause much more of a crisis for the historians and archivists trying to preserve access to those game libraries for future generations. The Strong Museum of Play obtained and maintained copies of all current 3DS and Wii U eShop games, "the only way anyone could ever legally play or study [those games] is if they flew to Rochester, signed a consent form, and sat in the premises playing it," Lewin points out. This will be a closed system with authenticated users, and pretty much restricted to the researchers and students or other groups that we've mentioned earlier