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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neboPosted:

Snowfl4k3z Sound like garbage games.


they aren't games bro, they're channels. Sorta like apps.

RuinsPosted:

there just replacements so its ok and tbh i don't even have my wii anymore :(

Snowfl4k3zPosted:

Sound like garbage games.

AdamuPosted:

ShadowBoltDashie I had a feeling they would discontinue some of the online features eventually. Basically replacing it for the Wii U's online services.


Yeah my sister was P***** lol

TaigaAisakaPosted:

I had a feeling they would discontinue some of the online features eventually. Basically replacing it for the Wii U's online services.

LWRPosted:

I went on the Wii a few times on bowling and tennis, actually pretty fun.

Never tried a real game on it though

SashagreyPosted:

The only games i really played on the Wii was the sports game you got with it and mario karts haha, pretty fun console if your playing with ya family though

KatsumiPosted:

-Tam the wii is useless anyway


The Wii isn't really useless. There is still many good games for the console. I still have a fair bit of fun with it.

-TamPosted:

the wii is useless anyway

KatsumiPosted:

wok
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.


It's not that the games where made particularly well, there where rough around the edges and awkward if you ask me.. That didn't change the fact that i had a lot of fun with them due to the controls and all. They simply felt different then the Xbox 360 and PS3


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