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I turned on my Wii for the first time in a few months today, and this was waiting for me:
Wii Network Service Partial Discontinuation
We at Nintendo sincerely thank you for your continued patronage of our company's products. We would like to inform you that a portion of the network services offered through the Wii console will be discontinued starting June 27, 2013.
We apologize to those of you currently using those services, and ask for your understanding. The affected applications are follows:
- Forecast Channel
- News Channel
- Everybody Votes Channel
- Nintendo Channel
- Check Mii Out Channel
- Data exchange between Wii friends on WiiConnect24*
* Wii message exchanges via Wii Message Board, Mii exchanges via Mii Channel, and exchanges of messages or data in some game titles will no longer be possible.
Following the discontinuation, the above services will not be available even if they are started up on the Wii menu. However, services other than those mentioned above, such as the automatic receipt of "Today's Accomplishments" on the Wii Message Board and the Wii Shop Channel** can continue to be used.
** After the service end date, you will not be able to use the Wii Number from the address book. For additional details, please visit support.nintendo.com
Nintendo
Sure enough, none of that shit works anymore. But, of course, half it can't be removed from the Wii Channel list, even though it's completely useless and just taking up space now.
So, like Microsoft and the original Xbox (not to be confused with the X-bone, of course) before it, Nintendo has essentially severed support for the Wii. Yeah, that makes me real interested in getting a Wii U or a 3DS now. </sarcasm>
Oh, but they will still let you spend money on old shit on the Wii Shop Channel though. Whoop-de-doo. Then again, they're not actually releasing any of the new stuff that I might have actually been interested in buying on the original Wii Virtual Console anymore, so why bother leaving even that much up and running? ¬_¬ I guess the main reason is if they'd gotten rid of Wii Shop Channel and access to shit that people have already spent money on, they'd have had a revolt on their hands. Maybe. I don't know. Gamers are generally fairly weaksauce about that sort of thing even so (the backlash against the X-bone being one of the few exceptions, and even then you have some dumbasses trying to get it put back the way it was before, and I'm pretty confident in saying that the X-bone still would have sold like gangbusters even if Microsoft hadn't backpedaled on their DRM and such).
In any case, people still using the Xbox 360 and the PS3 better be prepared for the inevitable day when Microsoft and Sony respectively kill support for those platforms as well. Welcome to the future, everyone. -_-
Wii Network Service Partial Discontinuation
We at Nintendo sincerely thank you for your continued patronage of our company's products. We would like to inform you that a portion of the network services offered through the Wii console will be discontinued starting June 27, 2013.
We apologize to those of you currently using those services, and ask for your understanding. The affected applications are follows:
- Forecast Channel
- News Channel
- Everybody Votes Channel
- Nintendo Channel
- Check Mii Out Channel
- Data exchange between Wii friends on WiiConnect24*
* Wii message exchanges via Wii Message Board, Mii exchanges via Mii Channel, and exchanges of messages or data in some game titles will no longer be possible.
Following the discontinuation, the above services will not be available even if they are started up on the Wii menu. However, services other than those mentioned above, such as the automatic receipt of "Today's Accomplishments" on the Wii Message Board and the Wii Shop Channel** can continue to be used.
** After the service end date, you will not be able to use the Wii Number from the address book. For additional details, please visit support.nintendo.com
Nintendo
Sure enough, none of that shit works anymore. But, of course, half it can't be removed from the Wii Channel list, even though it's completely useless and just taking up space now.
So, like Microsoft and the original Xbox (not to be confused with the X-bone, of course) before it, Nintendo has essentially severed support for the Wii. Yeah, that makes me real interested in getting a Wii U or a 3DS now. </sarcasm>
Oh, but they will still let you spend money on old shit on the Wii Shop Channel though. Whoop-de-doo. Then again, they're not actually releasing any of the new stuff that I might have actually been interested in buying on the original Wii Virtual Console anymore, so why bother leaving even that much up and running? ¬_¬ I guess the main reason is if they'd gotten rid of Wii Shop Channel and access to shit that people have already spent money on, they'd have had a revolt on their hands. Maybe. I don't know. Gamers are generally fairly weaksauce about that sort of thing even so (the backlash against the X-bone being one of the few exceptions, and even then you have some dumbasses trying to get it put back the way it was before, and I'm pretty confident in saying that the X-bone still would have sold like gangbusters even if Microsoft hadn't backpedaled on their DRM and such).
In any case, people still using the Xbox 360 and the PS3 better be prepared for the inevitable day when Microsoft and Sony respectively kill support for those platforms as well. Welcome to the future, everyone. -_-
