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."

Posted: Jun 29, 2013 11:17 am
Related Forum: Gaming Discussion

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/416942/multiple-wii-online-services-discontinued-today/

Comments

WubsPosted: Wed. Jul 10, 2013

I feel bad for Wii users.

TaigaAisakaPosted: Tue. Jul 09, 2013

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Lyttle That sucks, although I don't use my wii anymore there are people who still use them day to day, it's good it's not online play though.

Yeah, you have to give someone your special code to play with them. That was really stupid

The friend code thing is completely stupid. It is still around with the 3DS and the WiiU. I hope that they drop it and go with another, more convenient system

I never really used the friend code mostly because most of my friends were on the Xbox 360 and I left them over there when I got the Wii. Plus I was mostly playing the Wii for single player games and if I wanted to play multiplayer games I would hop on the Xbox 360.

KatsumiPosted: Tue. Jul 09, 2013

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Lyttle That sucks, although I don't use my wii anymore there are people who still use them day to day, it's good it's not online play though.

Yeah, you have to give someone your special code to play with them. That was really stupid

The friend code thing is completely stupid. It is still around with the 3DS and the WiiU. I hope that they drop it and go with another, more convenient system

neboPosted: Tue. Jul 09, 2013

Lyttle That sucks, although I don't use my wii anymore there are people who still use them day to day, it's good it's not online play though.

Yeah, you have to give someone your special code to play with them. That was really stupid

KatsumiPosted: Tue. Jul 09, 2013

NinjaWizard It's not like that many people still play the Wii.

A lot of the good games for the Wii where only for a niche market. If more people gave games such as Monster Hunter 3 a try then much more people would of been playing the wii

PlusnetPosted: Tue. Jul 09, 2013

It's not like that many people still play the Wii.

TaigaAisakaPosted: Mon. Jul 08, 2013

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Puhny The wii sports was where it was at.

True, I only played that haha. I bought the Wii for the sport games.

That's all anyone played.

I guess I'm the oddball out .-. I played them a few times but that was it xD I was onto the other Wii games and the GameCube games.

JastyPosted: Mon. Jul 08, 2013

That sucks, although I don't use my wii anymore there are people who still use them day to day, it's good it's not online play though.

IlIuminatiPosted: Mon. Jul 08, 2013

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Puhny The wii sports was where it was at.

True, I only played that haha. I bought the Wii for the sport games.

That's all anyone played.

wii sports was always the best... Nothing will outmatch it.

I have to agree wii sports was good

RuinsPosted: Mon. Jul 08, 2013

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Puhny The wii sports was where it was at.

True, I only played that haha. I bought the Wii for the sport games.

That's all anyone played.

wii sports was always the best... Nothing will outmatch it.

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