Nintendo Calls it a Day on Some Online Services

Nintendo - at least in Australia from whence this info came - is shutting down some of the online services so beloved of Wii owners. Who are we kidding...

One of the huge flaws with the Wii was its ungainly use of online, so it comes as no surprise to read the following:

"We at Nintendo sincerely thank you for your continued patronage of our company’s products. We would like to inform you that a portion of the online services offered through the Wii console will be discontinued from 28th June 2013. We apologise to those of you currently using these services."

The services are:

The affected applications are as follows:

- Nintendo Channel
- News Channel
- Forecast Channel
- Everybody Votes Channel
- Mii Contest Channel
- Data exchange with Wii Friends via WiiConnect24 (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.)

There is one further piece of info: "From 28th June 2013, the above services will no longer be available even if they are started up from the Wii Menu. However, services other than those mentioned above, such as the Wii Shop Channel and “Today’s Accomplishments” on the Wii Message Board, will remain available."

Are you going to miss any of the services? Have you swapped to Wii U? Tell us in the comments below or in our lovely forum.

Source: Nintendo Australia