Multiple Wii online services discontinued today

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As planned, Nintendo is today discontinuing several of the outgoing Wii's online services.


The discontinued services will render the following Wii home menu 'Channels' obsolete:

Nintendo Channel
News Channel
Forecast Channel
Everybody Votes Channel
Mii Contest Channel
Data exchange with Wii Friends

The Data Exchange with Friends closure will affect the "exchange of Wii messages on the Wii Message Board, exchange of Mii characters on the Mii Channel and message/data exchange within some games will be disabled".

This comes seven months after the launch of the Wii's successor, Wii U, in November 2012.

The Wii U Shop channel will remain online for the forceable future, and can be accessed directly via the Wii U system while in its backwards-compatible Wii mode.

Nintendo said within its original announcement, "We at Nintendo sincerely thank you for your continued patronage of our company's products. We apologise to those of you currently using these services."

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StonerzardPosted:

These used to be fun...when I was 11. The news and weather can be checked on your laptop or phone in 20 seconds these days, as for the rest I don't think there's enough regular users to keep them running.

WokzePosted:

Katsumi
xDiLL
-Trippyy NOOOOOOOOOOOOO- i was hoping that i could continue it because i was able to play WaW with all the people that were as bad as me :P


You actually play a shooter on the wii?


Shooters are surprisingly fun on the Wii due to the irregular controls. I didn't play WaW but i played the original black ops on the Wiik


Me too, i had a go on WaW, and i found it really fun to be honest, its not to bad, not great though.

WokzePosted:

-Trippyy NOOOOOOOOOOOOO- i was hoping that i could continue it because i was able to play WaW with all the people that were as bad as me :P


I think you can still play online, its only some services that have been dis-continued.

MurderersPosted:

too bad for my friend that just got a wii lol

KatsumiPosted:

xDiLL
-Trippyy NOOOOOOOOOOOOO- i was hoping that i could continue it because i was able to play WaW with all the people that were as bad as me :P


You actually play a shooter on the wii?


Shooters are surprisingly fun on the Wii due to the irregular controls. I didn't play WaW but i played the original black ops on the Wiik

TFMPosted:

-Trippyy NOOOOOOOOOOOOO- i was hoping that i could continue it because i was able to play WaW with all the people that were as bad as me :P


You actually play a shooter on the wii?

CeilingPosted:

Errorjack
ExoticWolfs
daw Nintendo isn't doing so good atm .


No, not at all. Which kinda sucks because, I loved Nintendo when I was younger. The GameCube was the best. :D


This is why idiots shouldn't be allowed on the internet. Nintendo is actually doing pretty good, best selling hand-held systems, INCLUDING the Nintendo 3DS which everyone said was going to fail. The Wii U is picking up more and more on sales, and with more titles coming, it's going to out-sell the other consoles easily. Do your research before you talk you goofs.

Yeah that why goofs shouldnt be on the internet like you

-LivePosted:

Errorjack
ExoticWolfs
daw Nintendo isn't doing so good atm .


No, not at all. Which kinda sucks because, I loved Nintendo when I was younger. The GameCube was the best. :D


This is why idiots shouldn't be allowed on the internet. Nintendo is actually doing pretty good, best selling hand-held systems, INCLUDING the Nintendo 3DS which everyone said was going to fail. The Wii U is picking up more and more on sales, and with more titles coming, it's going to out-sell the other consoles easily. Do your research before you talk you goofs.


Dude I highly doubt the Wii U will outsell consoles in it's current state because it is struggling for 3rd party support. Only Ubisoft and a couple Japanese devs are behind Nintendo and that isn't enough. Wii U will probably be another console carried by Nintendo exclusives which I think this time around won't do as well. Wii U sales will increase somewhat but it won't be to what Nintendo wants sales figures wise. The only thing carrying them in the hardware business right now is the 3DS since that has been selling well. I've said this multiple times but either Nintendo should have taken more time with the hardware to make it user-friendly and graphically superior then current gen then they would have had a better following and more 3rd party support which would have caused better console sales. This was Nintendo's own fault in this and I feel like after the Wii U that Nintendo should just stay in the handheld business and steer away from consoles for a while.

CuhPosted:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO- i was hoping that i could continue it because i was able to play WaW with all the people that were as bad as me :P

MaggardoPosted:

VanCity That was fast.


It was, I figured they would keep the online services for a long time, but, I'm guessing not.