Someone at Nintendo finally remembered to press the “On” button for the Wii Shop Channel and DSi Channel after several weeks of both services being completely offline. While users can now once again ...

Nintendo has revealed that it will be shutting down one of the cornerstones of Wii: the Wii Shop channel. The good news is that the shut down isn't going to happen for a while yet, though Nintendo ...

The Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DSi Shop channels have both gone down in recent days without any sort of explanation from Nintendo. As a whole, the Nintendo Wii shop has been closed since 2019, while ...

A month after Nintendo launched the Wii in November 2006, the company introduced the Wii Shop Channel, a marketplace for downloading apps to the system. Over a decade and two console generations later ...

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It's a sad day for loyal fans of the original Wii. As promised back in 2017, Nintendo is closing down the Wii Shop Channel as of January 30th. It lost much of its usefulness after March 26th of last ...

Nintendo has announced it will close the Wii Shop Channel on January 30, 2019. The service, which allows gamers to purchase digital titles that aren’t available in stores, was originally introduced in ...

New systems are great and everything, but there’s always a caveat when they come out, as they’re meant to replace older hardware on the market. And that means those older systems are usually put out ...

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The Nintendo Wii Shop Channel will be shut down in early 2019, ending the run of the service which was launched for the Nintendo Wii consoles in December 2006. Everybody saw it coming, however, as ...

Nintendo will shut down the Wii Shop channel on January 30th, 2019, marking the end of an era for the service that first came online for Wii consoles in December 2006. The shutdown will happen ...

In 2019, the Wii Shop Channel and its iconic music will come to an end. A statement from Nintendo says that Wii owners will be able to purchase content from the Wii Shop Channel until Jan. 30, 2019.