Nintendo killing online services for Wii and DS.

[mossy]

looks like Nintendo is dead set and forcing the Wii U onto consumers.........even though sales for the system are weak and everyone agrees the launch was handled poorly Nintendo is staying the course and now is killing online services for the Wii and DS. multiplayer and leader boards will not function after May 20th. other apps like Netflix and web browser will remain functional though.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/26/5452180/nintendo-wi-fi-connection-ending-in-may

[jeffrice6]

Up - down - up - down - B - A - select - start

[Merc1138]

Up - down - up - down - B - A - select - start

Umm. What?

up up down down left right left right B A SELECT START. Besides, that's Konami, not Nintendo.

As far as the wii and ds online services thing, shouldn't be much of a shock. The 3ds has been out a while now(not to mention its variants), there never was really much in the way of popularity for the online services(mostly due to the piss poor way Nintendo set it up) other than grabbing games from the shop. With the wii, I suspect nintendo was seeing the same thing. If the number of concurrent users plummets, at some point it's simply not feasible to keep the servers running forever

[jeffrice6]

Umm. What?

up up down down left right left right B A SELECT START. Besides, that's Konami, not Nintendo.

Damn it! Forgot the left, right, left right...... But it was Nintendo, it was old school Contra

[the86d]

THIS is why I never bought a Wii.

Nintendo has been a pilot-light since after the N64.

Composite out only on the OG Wii's... really? The Wii was doomed to fail from the get-go.

[sd_shooter]

THIS is why I never bought a Wii.

Nintendo has been a pilot-light since after the N64.

Composite out only on the OG Wii's... really? The Wii was doomed to fail from the get-go.

I know, right?

[lewdogg21]

007 373 5963

Straight to Iron Mike

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Does anyone over age 12 still use Nintendo consoles?

[Hoshnasi]

Up - down - up - down - B - A - select - start

Is this you?

[Hoshnasi]

looks like Nintendo is dead set and forcing the Wii U onto consumers.........even though sales for the system are weak and everyone agrees the launch was handled poorly Nintendo is staying the course and now is killing online services for the Wii and DS. multiplayer and leader boards will not function after May 20th. other apps like Netflix and web browser will remain functional though.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/26/54...-ending-in-may

Important distinction. DS is not the 3DS. They will continue to support online 3DS games.

[ogarcia_02]

I havent play wii since the took down the servers for monster hunter

[PolishMike]

The wii was awesome fun (especially after a couple beers)

Mine recently died so the gf went out and bought a wii U. What a stinking piece of **** this is. They literally took everything that was good on the wii and did the opposite.

[DaveInOroValley]

Way back we bought a Wii and after a few weeks it pretty much sat unused. The only thing that was even of interest now is the new bowling game which isn't bad and a dart game that's pretty good. Other then that its pretty much never used.

Kind of sad really as they just seemed to lose their edge.

[j-shot]

THIS is why I never bought a Wii.

Nintendo has been a pilot-light since after the N64.

Composite out only on the OG Wii's... really? The Wii was doomed to fail from the get-go.

I know, right?

You both must mean the Wii U as the Wii itself was a raging success for N.

[Merc1138]

Damn it! Forgot the left, right, left right...... But it was Nintendo, it was old school Contra

Your ups and downs weren't in the right order either, and it started with Gradius, not Contra. Still Konami and not Nintendo since it's on more than just Nintendo systems

Anyway...

The Wii sold exceptionally well, but that's no indication of how the online services for it were doing. I know plenty of people that bought a wii, and most of them have left it collecting dust in a closet for quite a while now. I don't know if the wii used the same moronic friend code system that the DS did, but if the entire online functionality was even similar to the DSi(and even on the 3ds now it's pretty crap), that would have put it behind sony in terms of usability of the online service by a mile and wouldn't shock me in the least that Nintendo decided to abandon it relatively early after the launch of the wii-u.

Dankey kang... lol.