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Nintendo Shuts Down Wii Shop Channel for Wii Console in January 2019 (Updated)
posted on by Karen Ressler
Nintendo announced on Friday that its Wii Shop Channel for the Nintendo Wii console will shut down on January 31, 2019 at 2:59 p.m. JST. Users will no longer be able to add Wii Points beginning on March 27, 2018 at 4:59 a.m. JST.
Users will still be able to download titles that have already been purchased and move games from the Wii to the Wii U, but these services will also be shut down in the future.
Following the closure, Nintendo will offer refunds for unused Wii Points and prepaid cards.
The Wii Shop Channel has been open since December 2006. Nintendo ended production of its Wii consoles in 2013.
Update: Nintendo of America also announced on Friday that it will close the Wii Shop Channel on January 30, 2019. Players can still add Wii Points until March 26, 2018, and can purchase content until January 30, 2019. Nintendo will also close services related to the Wii Shop Channel, "including redownloading purchased WiiWare, Virtual Console titles, and Wii Channel, as well as Wii System Transfer Tool, which transfers data from Wii to the Wii U system." Nintendo of America also opened a Q&A page to answer more questions about the upcoming closure.
[Via Gematsu]
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