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Topic: Why did the Wii shut down Online Services

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mariovslink62

Some of you may know this but others might not. One day Nintendo announced that on May 20th all online services will be discontinued. This includes online play and shopping on Dsi and Wii shop and more. It was unknown why they did this but my theory is that they are trying to get people to move on to Wii u. This is obvious but probably Nintendo is starting to leave the Wii

DERP

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Because they don't like the Wii and the DS.

QUEEN OF SASS

It's like, I just love a cowboy
You know
I'm just like, I just, I know, it's bad
But I'm just like
Can I just like, hang off the back of your horse
And can you go a little faster?!

Dogeymon

Wait, are they permanently shutting down the Wii shop? Ya mean we will no longer be able to download any sega and neogeo games anymore???? Surely, you jest.

Dogeymon

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No. It's just online play on Wii and DS games.

QUEEN OF SASS

It's like, I just love a cowboy
You know
I'm just like, I just, I know, it's bad
But I'm just like
Can I just like, hang off the back of your horse
And can you go a little faster?!

Jazzer94

Because people only played Kart, Smash and Pokemon three serieses that will be on their current gen now or soon.

Edited on by Jazzer94

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kuzronk

Since you can play mario kart on the 3DS/Wii U (upcomming),pokemon on the 3DS and Smash on the wii u/3rd soon.

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Joeynator3000

Ummm...the shops are unaffected.

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Scottorian

Well Nintendo obviously got their moneys worth out of mario kart and those games so now they have money to work on new stuff so why would they keep supporting the people that got them the momey in the first place.

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unrandomsam

Dreamz wrote:

No console, game, or service is supported indefinitely.

Not true. Counterstrike is still supported even now you can buy it and play it. There are ancient games on Steam that have patched out Gamespy. (Or offer dedicated servers).

It is a console thing even with its massively higher cost per game.

It is particularly bad for the DS stuff where all the content is actually on the cart just unlocked via the save game. (Nintendo had on cart locked content first).

Bravely Default with the update data thing is designed to have a kill switch to fail sooner rather than later it is a bad trend and getting worse.

Edited on by unrandomsam

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Banker-Style

Greed, so people buy MK 8 and a Wii U.

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firstlast

With alternate servers developed by fans (Wiimmfi and save-nintendo-Wifi.com), who knows, perhaps one day these become the official servers for Nintendo WiFi again lol. After all, Gamespy servers started like that as well, right?

I also kinda hope that, once the Wii U sales pick up, maybe Nintendo decides to enable the Wii WiFi functionality back through their in-house Nintendo Network? Playing Brawl, MKWii and City Folk without WiFi is kinda pointless.

Edited on by firstlast

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