Nintendo killing many games related Online Services for Wii & DS

[Foxi4]

I don't exactly understand this move. The Wii U as well as the 3DS were designed with backwards compatibility in mind, they can play Wii and DS games online respectively, so why cut the services for games that are still being actively used? I mean, Pokemon Black/White 2 is not an old game - it was released late 2012. I don't know, Ninty - this'll upset people. You should at least stick to the popular games - nobody's saying that you should keep unused servers online for no reason, but the big titles? C'mon.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

I don't exactly understand this move. The Wii U as well as the 3DS were designed with backwards compatibility in mind, they can play Wii and DS games online respectively, so why cut the services for games that are still being actively used? I mean, Pokemon Black/White 2 is not an old game - it was released late 2012. I don't know, Ninty - this'll upset people. You should at least stick to the popular games - nobody's saying that you should keep unused servers online for no reason, but the big titles? C'mon.

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[placebooooo]

Wait, so we arent going to be able to play online through wii or ds? why are they doing this? Are we going to get these features back?! This kind of makes me mad because it reminds me of apple somehow; if you have an iphone 3gs, ipod touch 2 etc... the updates for those systems are killed and you are forced to upgrade. Yeah lots of fun, apple, oops, nintendo!

 

[Ulieq]

What online services did professor layton games have?

Also, stores STILL carry more DS games than 3DS games. It's probably not right for Nintendo to cut the services to some of the games still on the market, like mario kart or pokemon.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

PS: Pokemon GTS services like PokeCheck and PokEdit will get Useless. Unless of course they upgrade to Gen6.

 

[placebooooo]

Can't we, the gamers, do anything about this?

 

[trumpet-205]

I don't exactly understand this move. The Wii U as well as the 3DS were designed with backwards compatibility in mind, they can play Wii and DS games online respectively, so why cut the services for games that are still being actively used?

vWii used by Wii U doesn't have WiiConnect24, so online service for Wii is already much broken.

What online services did professor layton games have?

Additional puzzles can be downloaded from Nintendo Wi-Fi Connections (about 30 for each game).

 

[katsup]

It sounds like Nintendo is going to repurpose the servers for Mario Kart 8. Ten days before it is released is plenty of time to deploy the MK8 software.

 

[2ndApex]

Damn, Brawl/Project M and Pokemon B/W 2 were still active too :\

 

[Adeka]

Wow, this honestly sucks

feels like b2w2 just came out

 

[the_randomizer]

I actually play with a person from my own country and the lag IS bearable, it basically just depends on your and your opponents's internet connection, of course if you fight with someone from Japan you can expect a lot of lag.

I often fought against a friend in West Virginia and I live on the west coast, so that was probably why. I could never get a match without lag.

Damn, Brawl/Project M and Pokemon B/W 2 were still active too :\

Project: M still is AFAIK. If not that, people like me are modding the hell outta Brawl

 

[TyBlood13]

West Virginia

Well there's the problem. I don't think the internet has been discovered there yet

 

[the_randomizer]

Well there's the problem. I don't think the internet has been discovered there yet

Lol, I haven't done online Brawl in years, but it can be done via the emulator, Dolphin as well, more or less, but it's tricky to set up.

Mario Kart however, worked perfectly fine on my end, and that was against people throughout the world.

 

[CraddaPoosta]

So, if it's not on the list, there will still be online support, unless the publisher has already stopped it?

 

[NakedFaerie]

N are really stupid. They release the WiiU but also release a new Wii. What did they expect? Of course the WiiU wont sell well if you also release a new version of the old console for a lot cheaper. And the Wii has so many more games than the WiiU.

I'm hoping as they are killing off the Wii they now put more effort into the WiiU and actually start getting it better. First thing they can do is enable WiiUTV as thats a feature the console comes with that still to this day doesn't work.
Someone should find a way to make a hacked version. Whats the info the WiiUTV uses then we redirect it to our own servers. That way we can use a feature they wont enable.

Thats a real surprise that they will close the Pokemon servers. Isn't Pokemon their biggest games ever?

 

[Toad King]

This really sucks, because any online service going down will hurt a lot of games that have lasting potential. RE: Outbreak going down was sucky and the latest revival project only happened less than a year ago, years after both US and JP servers went down.

If you want to save these online services, there's something you can do even if you can't reverse engineer stuff: get packet logs from all the games you can. For the Wii all you need is a USB ethernet adapter for the wii and either a network tap (like SharkTap) or an ethernet hub (not a switch! This part is important!). Then you can capture packets from the Wii on your computer with a program like Wireshark and hopefully give it to someone later on who can reverse engineer it.

For DS games, it'll be tougher. It might be easier to go online with an emulator and capture packets that way, but I'm not sure if DeSmuME or any other DS emulator has online support.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

Wii Mini says Hi!

Even after being bullied by everyone

 

[_v3]

Well, this kinda sucks. I mean, it was an expected move for some of the older games like MK and AC:WW, but WHY B2W2??? The game is so new, it barely came out, same goes for BW and HGSS. They could have had atleast kept the pokemon servers up, seeing as how there's still a LOADS of people.
EDIT: Screw the android keyboard!

 

[krzz]

That is totally retarded.

 

[GamerSince83]

They say Grown Men shouldn't Cry but Fudge it