Bad news for anyone trying to redownload an old DSi Wii games or titles across each console’s store channels: Players are currently reporting downtime on both channels and it’s been a few days now. Many are now concerned that the channels will not return, which could lead to a lot of digital content that people own and don’t have a chance to download before a possible sudden shutdown is blocked.
Review: This story originally confused the 3DS and DSi. This has been fixed and the links and title have been changed to reflect the patch.
how did you see EurogamerIt seems that since March 16, the Nintendo DSi and Wii Store Channels You are not connected to the Internet. If this closure was permanent and these stores never returned, it appears that they closed without notice from Nintendo.
To be clear: You can’t buy anything on the Wii Shopping Channel since 2019. The DSi Store stopped letting you purchase content before that in 2017.
However, in both cases, Nintendo hasn’t announced specific dates or plans for when these stores will be completely closed. If it’s already closed forever without alert, that’s bad.
The potential early and unannounced closure of these stores is a big deal for many. Once these digital stores are closed (or if they are) permanently closed, you will not be able to re-download any content you previously purchased from them. Many players may need a few months to download and install some of their favorite or hard-to-find DSi and Wii exclusives before shutting down the servers for good.
Kotaku I’ve contacted Nintendo about the stores being down for several days and if they have any plans to bring them back online.
On the page announcing the news of Nintendo ending support for the DSI Store, Here’s what the editor said about the futurefocus on:
The ability to redownload purchased content or transfer content to the Nintendo 3DS family system It will continue after the Nintendo DSi Store is closed for an indefinite period of time from now. If you’re considering moving your DSiWare content to a Nintendo 3DS family console, we recommend that you do so as soon as possible while the service is available. “
Back on the support page, she announced her plans for the Wii Shop channel.You can find a similar message, and this is what Nintendo does Recognition He’ll probably shut it down one day, and again, the focus is mine:
“However, For now, you can continue to re-download your purchased content. Or transfer this content from Wii console to Wii U console. Please pay attention to it These features will expire at a later time. “
However, it seems foolish to pull the plug completely on these stores without warning. It can also be a long downtime due to some behind-the-scenes issues or technical issues that we are not aware of. In that case, Nintendo still needs (as of March 20 at 3:15 EST) to publicly acknowledge or cause the outage.
Another interesting thing to note is that some players have reported being able to continue downloading games and downloadable content through third-party tools such as NUSDownloader. This seems to mean that the servers are still running at a certain capacity, but the storefronts are down for some unknown reason.
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