Nintendo Pulling The Plug On Some Wii Online Services

Nintendo Pulling The Plug On Some Wii Online Services

Nintendo announced that a portion of the online services offered through the Wii console will be discontinued from 28th June 2013.

The affected applications are as follows:

- Nintendo Channel
- News Channel
- Forecast Channel
- Everybody Votes Channel
- Mii Contest Channel
- Data exchange with Wii Friends via WiiConnect24*

* 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.

From 28th June 2013, the above services will no longer be available even if they are started up from the Wii Menu. However, services other than those mentioned above, such as the Wii Shop Channel and "Today’s Accomplishments" on the Wii Message Board, will remain available.