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Nintendo to shut down Wii shopping channel on 2019/01/31
- Thread starter Garou
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Garou
Member
The Wii Shop music had an official CD-release on the Club Nintendo Touch! Generations-soundtrack.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Considering it took like 30-60 seconds to load each page and downloading an N64 game took like 30 goddamn minutes, the music got a bit old.
It would surprise you the amount of exclusive hidden gems the service has/had
Linkstrikesback
Member
If you want to use an SD card as storage on Wii u, buy a USB SD card adapter. I'm pretty sure it works.
You can, and it requires downloading an app from the Wii shop channel.
However, it won't get you around the channel being taken down, as the Wii u uses the wii shop channel and doesn't have Wii digital stuff in the Wii U Store.
There's quite a few.
The Giant
Banned
Well then this looks like devs will get some extra money from the wii shop now.
Would be awesome if Konami did a hd remaster for Switch for these games.
Would be awesome if Konami did a hd remaster for Switch for these games.
Many of these games will be lost and unpurchaseable. In what world is this a non issue?
In a world where the Wii wasn't cracked right open sure, but that's not the world we live in. The entire wiiware library was already archived years ago.
I get where you're coming from but for me it's a shame these games won't be legally available for purchase in the years to come.
theclaw135
Banned
All the people in denial. Acting like service shutdowns don't happen, or they aren't going to someday be affected by them, whatever other excuses.
None of that matters. Service shutdowns are cold hard documented facts. We can verify it DID occur, and DID affect those who continued to use it.
panama chief
Member
This is all that matters. I loved it.
World SkiFree
Member
I may have to search out an old thread or maybe this news will spawn a new, "last hurrah" thread for VC and WiiWare games.
There has never been any widespread issues with using credit cards via Wii Shop, right? May just get a USD gift/credit card and active it for online use via the shop.
My main hitlist would include Excitebike: World Rally and the Wii updates for Tetris and Dr. Mario.
Also would like to grab Rebirth versions of Contra and Castlevania.
Lastly but not leastly, have always been tempted to buy Star Fox 64, Wave Race 64 and 1080 via VC. (Although just picked up Star Fox 64 on 3DS, it's incredible.)
Thoughts on the WiiWare/VC versions of these games?
theclaw135
Banned
Anyhow I might think on Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6. Not that I need more versions of those. Blaster Master Overdrive could be okay too.
Garou
Member
You think PS3 and X360 shops will stay up forever?
theclaw135
Banned
We'll see. The Wii shop was open three years longer than original Xbox Live.
Of course not.
The bigger issue is that I find Microsoft's and even Sony's DRM far more tolerable than Nintendo's.
I'm not sure why it's in any way mildly annoying to hook up a Wii online, but we shouldn't have to resort to piracy in order to have access to games that we've paid money for. Digital future indeed. It is seriously fucked.
Flintty
Member
Thats fucking bullshit. I need to make sure my Prime Trilogy is downloaded (on U).
Thanks Nintendo, you just made sure I never go digital on any of your platforms.
Toadthemushroom
Member
Hm, do you think Wii to Wii U system transfers will end when redownloads do?
Toadthemushroom
Member
Hardly. Wii was an architectural dead end, like how you cant download iPod Classic games anymore.
Everything Iwata said leading up to NXs formal announcement late last year pointed to Switch being a forward compatible platform where new systems wont have to start from zero in their software library. He even said the future OS should be like iPhone and Android where theres a common way of programming each hardware system.
Add to that the news that Nvidia and Nintendos partnership will last at least 20 years and its pretty clear Switch is going to be an iOS-like format where all games are forwards compatible. Thus, theres no reason to shut off an entire store for it.
(Also worth noting that Microsoft is shutting down the Xbox Live Indie Store next week - because those games are a dead-end).
Either way, Im not saying Nintendo is right to shut down the Shop Channel (personally I think 2026 would be better), but its not a bad sign for Switch owners.
Wowfunhappy
Member
I can't complain too much when they've kept the shop up so long, but I have to wonder why? Surely keeping the servers up costs Nintendo next to nothing, so why take it down?
mavericktopgun
Member
So it was available for 13 years... That's long.
Toadthemushroom
Member
From the top of my head:
Hydroventure/Fluidity
Excitebike: World Rally
Motoheroz
Swords and Soldiers
Toki Tori
Lost Winds
Bonsai Barber
MaBoShi: The three Shape arcade
You, Me and the Cubes
Art Style series (Light Trax/Dotstream etc)
Bit Trip series (pointer controls)
FF: My Life as a King
Space Invaders Get Even
FF: My Life as a Darklord
Contra Rebirth
Gradius Rebirth
Star Soldier R
Muscle March
Castlevania Rebirth
Ace Attorney Trilogy (most relaxing/lazy way to play the game, 60fps)
Eco Shooter: Plant 530
Ivy the Kiwi
Im sure others can add to this list. We should do a thread in the run-up to the closure like this one: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1286360
MaBoShi's Arcade.
the wii VC has one of the best collection of retro games on a home console ever.
a shame the servers will be closing, but this was going to happen eventually and being given 1 year notice is more than decent.
i'm actually surprised that a service they put online two console generations ago is still up & running.
gonna be buying some wii shop point and doing some downloading.
a shame the servers will be closing, but this was going to happen eventually and being given 1 year notice is more than decent.
i'm actually surprised that a service they put online two console generations ago is still up & running.
gonna be buying some wii shop point and doing some downloading.
That's a Wii Download from the Wii U Eshop. This is about the Wii Shop Channel.
Make sure to add the points before March 27th 2018, though.
Toadthemushroom
Member
MaBoShi is amazing!
rochellepaws
Member
I'm glad I've stuck to mostly physical on Nintendo platforms since they always seem to be the first to put the shutters down on this service, but I'm seriously worried for when a similar announcement comes for PS3. I'm not sure even another 10 years would be enough time for me to get through my backlog of cheap sale purchases and ps plus titles.
Compsiox
Banned
Ah okay, I didn't read it yet but that's good to know.
Also is a pretty shitty indicator for will eventually happen to the 3DS Eshop.
Did the DS/DSi shop ever shutdown?
Toadthemushroom
Member
About a year ago: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1286360
But the difference is, nearly all DSi software was transferred over to the 3DS eShop before it launched in June 2011. So you can still buy almost every DSiWare game on any 3DS.
On Wii U, Wii software was kept separate to Wii Mode. At least until Wii U eShop listings of Wii games happened under the virtual console banner, but only about 30 games were ever released to the Wii U eShop, and none of them were WiiWare titles.
That's is not what I said. I was talking about the "preservation" aspect of this. That is a non-issue. You have been able to rip and store your games for a long, long time. Claiming that Nintendo has made it so the only way to get this games is to pirate them is ludicrous.
Oh wow, thanks. I somehow missed that.
Sigh, there's so many VC titles that Nintendo didn't bother to port to Wii U, I'm gonna need two jobs to purchase as many as I can until March... :/
Pour one out for the Wii Shop Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYOEyzBFYa4
I would say a majority of it did reach wii u though.Fixed. VC sure did drop off a cliff, sadly
Swords and Soldiers has a Wii U port, I'm pretty sure it has every wii feature.