Discontinuation of Wii Shop Channel Announced

[CheatFreak47]

Nintendo has announced the discontinuation of the Wii Shop Channel in Japan, and recently also has announced it for North America and Europe.

Users will be able to add points and purchase titles from the Wii Shop Channel up until March 27th 2018, after which, no more points may be added, but existing points may be used to purchase titles through January 2019.

Following this, the entire Wii Shop Channel infrastructure will shut down sometime in 2019, removing the ability to redownload purchases.

Source:
JP | NA | EU

 

[DarthDub]

I think I still have a few hundred points on mine.

 

[CheatFreak47]

It's lucky that the Wii is so easy to hack- it means preservation of the content on the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel is relatively easy, thank goodness.

I'm curious when Nintendo will be fully taking the channel down, as in, when the Content Delivery Network behind the Wii (including NUS) will be also terminated. Probably sometime around late 2019 or 2020.

Time will tell, I suppose.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

It would be nice to have some of these stuff on WII U or newer systems, Since capcom didn't care about mega man legacy collection 2 on switch or 3ds (not that i would buy it) mega man 9 & 10 won't be available on wii switch or 3DS, even though there no excuse why it shouldn't. Final fantasy IV after years another good game, Bomberman blitz, blaster master overdrive, adventure island returns, and the 3 konami rebirth games, contra, gradius and castlevania, and some others.

Maybe is best to make a list of noteworthy wii ware games, to try?

 

[DarthDub]

Make sure every wad is archived, demos included.

 

[jimmyj]

I bet they will push an update to remove the channel and remove the vulnerabilities it has. *cough* dsi *cough* wii u *cough*

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Uhhh what?

Exploits? They are closing wiishop, what exploits? Nintendo eshop on wii u is different than wiishop, it was a wii thing, what exploits are you talking about that was ever on wiishop?

And they already closed dsishop, that was months ago.

 

[Deleted User]

Incoming the End of an Era.

 

[jimmyj]

Uhhh what?

Exploits? They are closing wiishop, what exploits? Nintendo eshop on wii u is different than wiishop, it was a wii thing, what exploits are you talking about that was ever on wiishop?

And they already closed dsishop, that was months ago.

No I was saying maybe they would push an update to patch some exploits considering they did that to the dsi and wii u. I was saying that considering this is Nintendo maybe they will push an update along with the removal of the service . You did not understand a thing of what I said xD

 

[cearp]

When I hacked the vwii of my wiiu, I was surprised to see the shop still active!
So, this doesn't surprise me really.

 

[Aletron9000]

Once that goes down, so will this beautiful melody.

 

[migles]

we need to backup everything in the NUS.
and maybe even had NUS\update functions in the custom servers..
some people have their wiis abandoned at old exploits and will loose the hability to update them, however i think there are disc updates with the last firmwares?

 

[daxtsu]

This would be a good time to archive all of the old IOSes and what-not available on NUS. Unlike the 3DS, they never really removed old system titles, to my knowledge.

 

[Bladexdsl]

No I was saying maybe they would push an update to patch some exploits considering they did that to the dsi and wii u. I was saying that considering this is Nintendo maybe they will push an update along with the removal of the service . You did not understand a thing of what I said xD

they don't give two fucks about the wii anymore why you think they are closing the shop? they already removed online this is the final nail in the coffin. this is what nintendo does they always abandon EVERYTHING

 

[spotanjo3]

It's lucky that the Wii is so easy to hack- it means preservation of the content on the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel is relatively easy, thank goodness.

I'm curious when Nintendo will be fully taking the channel down, as in, when the Content Delivery Network behind the Wii (including NUS) will be also terminated. Probably sometime around late 2019 or 2020.

Time will tell, I suppose.

Japan announced to closed it down in 2019.

 

[Abu_Senpai]

I can safely say that i have never ever used this shop app even though i owned a WII for a short period of time.

 

[Kioku]

they don't give two fucks about the wii anymore why you think they are closing the shop? they already removed online this is the final nail in the coffin. this is what nintendo does they always abandon EVERYTHING

You say abandon but the Wii is way past it's time.

 

[Bladexdsl]

a console isn't truly dead until it's no longer getting games AND ALL services are cut off. now the wii truly is DEAD

 

[DavidKang]

I personally think it's been there long enough. Just as much as it needs to do its work. Still a bit sad hearing the news, but I think Nintendo did a right thing.

 

[cearp]

they don't give two fucks about the wii anymore why you think they are closing the shop? they already removed online this is the final nail in the coffin. this is what nintendo does they always abandon EVERYTHING

The psp store is closed right?
It's not crazy that after so many years, the store shuts down.

Just like some companies stop supporting their hardware if the parts aren't made anymore.

In 30 years I doubt the ps4 store will work either.