Discontinuation of Wii Shop Channel Announced

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Sad but not surprised, I actually went on the shop channel a few weeks ago just for a look.
Even though the channel has been active for way longer than I expected, it's still pretty sad to hear the news
 

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If I remember correctly, I might have around 2,000 unused points from when I was 16 years old (nearly 11 years ago). I wonder if I'll get a refund.
they will probably refund you in eshop money for the switch/3ds
 

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After inevitable news like this, I'm baffled to see any arguments related to physical vs digital purchases..

Anyway, on topic, I have a big archive from back in the day filled with IOS, systemmenus, and everything really. Not sure it's all up to date, but if anything got removed at some point, chances are, I have it.
 

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I have had 200 points listed on the Wii for the last seven years.

Anyway, it's understandable why they would do this. It hasn't been updated for quite a while and it costs them resources to keep a mostly dead system up.
 

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I really thought the shop was closed years ago. :unsure:

Okay, granted: that was the wii wifi connection service (on may 20, 2014, as google tells me). But I assumed the wii store was part of that. I mean...has there been a single wiiware release since then?
(okay, there were at least two...but both only in NA, and not after 2014).
 

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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.

Doesn't that make you lose faith in the idea of the digital store though?
To see all the content you paid with your hard earn money just vanish because it's unprofitable to keep the servers up.
I think Nintendo should at least allow people to buy/get physical disks that install the Wii Shop content they own on their Wii.
 
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The most important thing to backup now is DLCs and some demos.Although they run outside Shop Channel, they required it to download it, so it has a good chance to go away even if not directly mentioned. Wiiwares and Virtual Consoles were backed up many times and they are easy to find a full set in some torrent trackers.

The only game that wasnt backed up properly that I can mention is a remaster of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon that was available only in Japan. You find patched versions (not translated, it was a patch to make it work on a non japanese console) that dont work and I dont find a untouched version anywhere.
 
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Doesn't that make you lose faith in the idea of the digital store though?
To see all the content you paid with your hard earn money just vanish because it's unprofitable to keep the servers up.
I think Nintendo should at least allow people to buy/get physical disks that install the Wii Shop content they own on their Wii.
Nothing vanishes. All the content you've downloaded remains working just as well as before.

I can understand that if you've bought more content than the tiny 512MB storage of the wii this may be a problem, but I seriously doubt there are many among these that STILL play their content on a regular basis and have never heard of hacking their wii before.

Now that I think of it: doesn't the closure of the shop has a weird consequence of nintendo being unable to tell whether a wii full of VC and/or wiiware is legitimate or full of pirated content? They won't have a shop anymore to verify anything. :P
 

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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?
Well riiconnect24 could make the wii shop channel work again after the shutdown of it if they love the wii alot
 

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