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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VeraPosted:

daw Nintendo isn't doing so good atm .


agreed

WokzePosted:

daw Nintendo isn't doing so good atm .


nintendo hasn't been for a while, the wii u is a disaster, and kids as young as 4 are gettings xbox's and ps now instead.

TheBigLebowskiPosted:

I had a Wii U and I hated it, I sold it and went back to Wii, now they are shutting that down little by little, like they are forcing people to buy their crappy system

LichPosted:

wok they did that pretty quick.


Thats what I thought.

DawPosted:

Nintendo isn't doing so good atm .

WokzePosted:

Katsumi Ouch. It's not great to see that Nintendo are discontinuing some of their online services already. I guess it's simply due to inactivity of the applications. I hope that the Nintendo Wii even somewhat supported by Nintendo over the next 2-3 years, It still has a little potential as a games console in my opinion.

Thanks for the article


It sure is, nintendo are not doing well at the moment.

slapshot101Posted:

I don't see why they can't support things like the news and weather channels because they both don't require any work, they are taken from outside data.

WokzePosted:

they did that pretty quick.

MentalistPosted:

so what's happening?

YurPosted:

VanCity That was fast.


Ikr!


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