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Nintendo To Cancel Weather, News, and Other Built-In Wii Apps In June

Posted by Soulskill on from the end-of-life dept.

damn_registrars writes "Nintendo has announced that at the end of June it will be canceling the services of several of the channels that are built in to the original Wii, including the Weather, News, Everybody Votes, and Mii Contest. This will also affect the WiiConnect24 services, though should not affect the Wii shopping channel. They added: '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.'"

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  1. More Information by kenwood720 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Article from Engadget (Mentions Japan only): http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/12/nintendo-to-retire-some-wii-network-services-june-28/

    Who referenced Nintendo's "Japan" website: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2013/0412.html

    And that website in English: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.co.jp%2Fsupport%2Finformation%2F2013%2F0412.html

  2. Re:Is Nintendo starting to close up shop? by AvitarX · · Score: 5, Informative

    The voting was fun though.

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  3. Re:Is Nintendo starting to close up shop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are interested in a Wii U yet you call the Wii outdated...

    You do realize the Wii U is simply a Wii with 720p and a overpriced external screen that does nothing except show you what is on the TV.

    By which you mean a Wii with a better CPU and GPU, 1080p, and an external screen that can act independently of what's shown on the TV, right? I know, I know, it's a common mistake to get absolutely everything wrong. Must be your crippling Alzheimer's.

    Bro, do you even troll?

  4. Re:#dealwithit by Golddess · · Score: 4, Informative

    this wouldn't have happened if Sony had been harmed by removing OtherOS.

    Why is that? This is more like Sony turning off the servers for $multiplayer_game than it is them removing OtherOS.

    Not saying it's right, only that it is a different scenario.

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  5. Re:For that matter... by Cutriss · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh. My. God. Lego City Undercover. Forget everything else, even Mario.

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