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Nintendo to Discontinue Several Wii Online Services

Nintendo has announced that it will stop several Wii online services on June 28th. The Wii Shop Channel and ‘Today’s Accomplishments’ on the Wii Message Board will still continue to operate.

The following Wii services will be going offline.

  • Nintendo Channel
  • News Channel
  • Forecast Channel
  • Everybody Votes Channel
  • Mii Contest Channel
  • Data exchange with Wii Friends*
* 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
Nintendo said, “We at Nintendo sincerely thank you for your continued patronage of our company’s products. We apologise to those of you currently using these services.”

How do you feel about some of these services being discontinued?

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