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Services that will end include:

Weather channel
Digicam Print channel
News channel
Everyone Votes channel
Nintendo channel
Mii Contest channel
Data exchange with friends through Wii Connect 24*

*Includes exchanging of Miis, messages, and data from select games.

Services such as the Wii Shopping channel and the playlog in the Wii Messageboard will not be affected.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2013/0412.html

 

[Soriku]

I haven't used them in years.

 

[zoukka]

I never even peeked at them...

 

[Platinumstorm]

Wish Wii U had everybody votes.. serious... Their AP newsfeed/weather were pretty cool too, but less relevant today.

 

[cw_sasuke]

Never understood why they didnt put those services also on 3DS or WiiU...i mean they are already there ? Why not port them to you current systems ?

 

[Why would you do that?]

Ah, I'll miss the Nintendo Channel. Fun times, plus DS demos.

Never understood why they didnt put those services also on 3DS or WiiU...i mean they are already there ? Why not port them to you current systems ?

Less need for dedicated applications for news/weather with the web browser.

Wii U eShop replaces the Nintendo Channel.

 

[BocoDragon]

Deleting Everyone Votes?

This is an obstruction of democracy!

 

[Salsa]

homebrew channel 4 lyfe

 

[Tenbatsu]

Never understood why they didnt put those services also on 3DS or WiiU...i mean they are already there ? Why not port them to you current systems ?

No one uses them and they cost a bomb to maintain?

 

[jooey]

various = the rest of

 

[NewFresh]

Nintendo Channel was interesting at times. The DS demos were fun.

All I know is my Homebrew channel will always be there!

 

[ElectricKaibutsu]

Digiprint what? That's the first I've heard of it.

Edit:
I hesitate to write this but...
Imagine if the Wii was always online required... There goes your SMG2.

 

[Nibel]

Will create a "Wii Mini Buyers Remorse" thread

 

[axisofweevils]

Shame, really.

The way the globe spinned in the news channel was kinda cool.
Will give a few more votes on "Everybody Votes" for old time's sake.

What is the Digicam Print channel? That better not be the photo channel. I still use it on Wii regularly. (In fact, that and gamecube games are the only reason I still have it connected.)

I do think the Wii U could do with some apps like these.

 

[Infernal Monkey]

I'm slightly impressed the Everyone Votes Channel lasted this long. I got bored of it after the first week or so.

 

[Luth1en]

No one cares Nintendo.

 

[Thoraxes]

My dad will be sad about the weather channel.

He loved spinning the globe around to see what weather was like across the world with the calm music.

 

[zoukka]

No one cares Nintendo.

You cared!

 

[Fuzz Rez]

No one cares Nintendo.

Thoraxes dad does care!

 

[peaceiscloser]

Everybody Votes was a pretty cool idea. I wish that there were events sorta like that on Miiverse.

 

[ElectricKaibutsu]

Thoraxes dad does care!

Oh burn!

 

[Clefargle]

How else am I supposed to get friend vouchers for MP trilogy? Fuck!

 

[BocoDragon]

Hope they do keep the Wii Shop open for awhile... I'm actually buying things on there!

Turns out the original Wii VC is the best way to play rare games in 240p. (Alien Soldier $200+? No...)

 

[WiiRevolution1]

B-b-but the Nintendo Channel has the Wii's Activity Log in it!

I HAVE to have a activity log! Just ask anyone whos seen me post about how much I love my activity log!

Fuck! I am gonna have to write down the entire AL before it gets shut down. THATS OVER TWO HUNDRED TITLES! At least they gave me a good heads up...

Also, the Wii is truly dead in Ninetndo's eyes. Long live the Wii Mini!

 

[DryvBy]

How am I going to be able to tell what the weather is now?

 

[The_Lump]

Deleting Everyone Votes?

This is an obstruction of democracy!

Here here! They can delete our channels, but they'll never delete our freedom.


So when does "Everybody Votes - HD" come out?

 

[Fuzz Rez]

How am I going to be able to tell what the weather is now?

Ask Siri.

 

[dallow_bg]

Weather Channel was nice, but never used it past the first couple months.
Everything else was trash.

 

[Sandfox]

Will create a "Wii Mini Buyers Remorse" thread

You cn't use those channels with the Wii Mini regardless.

 

[Darryl]

i didn't know these things still worked at all

 

[DryvBy]

Ask Siri.

She doesn't know how I'm going to get weather from my Wii now either. Ball suck!!

 

[MisterHero]

I hope they have successors on Wii U. Maybe the News/Weather channel can be powered by an improved custom Google Earth.

 

[Ashler]

Oh no... !

 

[FyreWulff]

Fun little distractions, and the news view was pretty neat where you could spin it around and it showed all the news for each location as a stack of paper sized to the amount of news.

All the data for the interesting ones was supplied by third parties so I'm going to venture a guess and say their contract expired for those services.

 

[sakipon]

i didn't know these things still worked at all

It's only been a couple of months since Wii U launch. Quickly dropping all support for any older products is more of an MS thing.

 

[Madao]

if only there was a way to have an activity log for Wii games on Wii U.
stupid closed off BC.

 

[totowhoa]

Everyone Votes channel

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

obligatory

 

[AniHawk]

we used to use my friend's mii for check mii out every single time. at some point, we think people started catching on, since his mii would get high in the rankings for things like, mona lisa or wise old man. we would do everybody votes pretty regularly too and argue over what would come in first.

 

[blamite]

Awww, not the Nintento Channel, that's the only one that's actually somewhat useful!

 

[metalslimer]

these thing were cool for that one week in 2006 and no one had smartphones

 

[MisterHero]

I bet whoever's #1 ranked on the Mii Contest channel is feeling pretty lousy. Those contests were simple fun.

 

[iphys]

I hated the Everyone Votes channel, but I liked the activity log in the Nintendo Channel and getting Miis from the Check Mii Out channel. I guess if we can't use Wii Connect 24 anymore, the Wii Speak channel will also be useless now?

 

[totowhoa]

these thing were cool for that one week in 2006 and no one had smartphones

My phone doesn't let Everyone Vote.

 

[A Black Falcon]

They're shutting down the Nintendo Channel? That's too bad, it was nice to have all those videos there. I hope they're backed up somewhere, or are on Youtube, or something... and yeah, the DS Demos section of it was nice too. I only wish that they didn't mostly time out. Seriously, time-limited-availability demos which you cannot save are the worst!

Also, Nintendo Week was pretty good stuff. I watched it frequently. I didn't really use any of those other channels, but the Nintendo Channel I did check every once in a while, when my Wii was actually hooked up to the internet (which is rare).

 

[Silver_DNA]

My parents really liked the voting channel. I kind of liked it too. I hope they do something like it on Wii U. I mean, we all know how badly the Wii U needs things to do on it.

 

[dallow_bg]

Somebody has saved all the music right?

 

[Kissenkopf]

I hope they bring them all over to the Wii U...


...just kidding.

 

[fi1ip]

Activity log is a great feature. Can't believe they are going to get rid of it.

They should create a new channel just for the activity log.

 

[Ivan 3414]

Oh crap...now how am I going to get those friend medal thingies for Metroid Prime Trilogy? <_<