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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TaigaAisakaPosted:

Katsumi
ShadowBoltDashie
Katsumi
ShadowBoltDashie
Zer0 A another good pokemon game and we'll talk again nintendo
Other then that idc about u


Pokemon X and Pokemon Y? I know it's a little different with what they're adding to it but I'm sure it will still be pretty good.


Pokemon X and Y look really cool. I have already pre-ordered Y for the 3DS. If you are waiting for a new pokemon game then i suggest giving it a try once it comes out


I'm looking forward to the game. I still would have to buy a 3DS but I think Pokemon X and Pokemon Y will be worth it.


You can pick one up for pretty cheep these days. I got a 3DS Pre-Owned for $110 a few weeks ago


I'll probably check out GameStop or eBay. I already had one of the Pokemon games pre-ordered(Don't remember which one) but I still need to buy a 3DS. I'll probably only use it for that game alone.

KatsumiPosted:

ShadowBoltDashie
Katsumi
ShadowBoltDashie
Zer0 A another good pokemon game and we'll talk again nintendo
Other then that idc about u


Pokemon X and Pokemon Y? I know it's a little different with what they're adding to it but I'm sure it will still be pretty good.


Pokemon X and Y look really cool. I have already pre-ordered Y for the 3DS. If you are waiting for a new pokemon game then i suggest giving it a try once it comes out


I'm looking forward to the game. I still would have to buy a 3DS but I think Pokemon X and Pokemon Y will be worth it.


You can pick one up for pretty cheep these days. I got a 3DS Pre-Owned for $110 a few weeks ago

TaigaAisakaPosted:

Katsumi
ShadowBoltDashie
Zer0 A another good pokemon game and we'll talk again nintendo
Other then that idc about u


Pokemon X and Pokemon Y? I know it's a little different with what they're adding to it but I'm sure it will still be pretty good.


Pokemon X and Y look really cool. I have already pre-ordered Y for the 3DS. If you are waiting for a new pokemon game then i suggest giving it a try once it comes out


I'm looking forward to the game. I still would have to buy a 3DS but I think Pokemon X and Pokemon Y will be worth it.

EnvelopePosted:

That sucks

Vex-Posted:

that;s too bad. I was planning on playing my friend in brawl online. I guess have to go to his house instead... Wait that's even better!

KatsumiPosted:

ShadowBoltDashie
Zer0 A another good pokemon game and we'll talk again nintendo
Other then that idc about u


Pokemon X and Pokemon Y? I know it's a little different with what they're adding to it but I'm sure it will still be pretty good.


Pokemon X and Y look really cool. I have already pre-ordered Y for the 3DS. If you are waiting for a new pokemon game then i suggest giving it a try once it comes out

TaigaAisakaPosted:

Zer0 A another good pokemon game and we'll talk again nintendo
Other then that idc about u


Pokemon X and Pokemon Y? I know it's a little different with what they're adding to it but I'm sure it will still be pretty good.

Zer0Posted:

A another good pokemon game and we'll talk again nintendo
Other then that idc about u

KatsumiPosted:

ShadowBoltDashie
RaheemSterling_31 I also can't see the Wii U being a big seller


The Wii U isn't doing the best of sales right now, but the Nintendo 3DS is doing pretty good. The Wii U might see better sales after some of the games that they showed at E3 are released.


The 3DS is currently dominating the hand held market with a market share of 80%+ at the moment so Nintendo is doing pretty well in that perspective

TaigaAisakaPosted:

RaheemSterling_31 I also can't see the Wii U being a big seller


The Wii U isn't doing the best of sales right now, but the Nintendo 3DS is doing pretty good. The Wii U might see better sales after some of the games that they showed at E3 are released.


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