The Wii was a tremendous success at the time and was a great comeback for Nintendo after the beloved but perhaps less successful GameCube.
Stopping the services
Nintendo announced in Japan that it will no longer be servicing the original Wii which launched back in 2006. The notice put out by Nintendo states that is in regard to model RVL-001 (all colour variations).
Parts unknown
The reason for this move is because the company no longer produce the parts required for a repair. Nintendo hasn’t mentioned the west as of yet.
The Wii era
The Wii introduced the Wii Remote controller, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and which detects movement in three dimensions.
The console runs games supplied on Wii optical discs. It also supported the now discontinued WiiConnect24 service, which enabled Wii to receive messages and updates over the Internet while in standby mode.
Like other seventh-generation consoles it supported a service, called “Virtual Console”, that downloaded emulated games from past Nintendo consoles, support for online video streaming such as BBC iPlayer, and other services provided by Nintendo over the Internet. From June 28, 2013,
Internet services were gradually discontinued; since January 31, 2019, only re-download of games, system software update, and transfer of data between Wii and Wii U continued to be available, to be withdrawn at an unspecified future date.
Wii Points could no longer be purchased after March 2018, and could not be used and were permanently lost from January 31, 2019.
And now this bridge has come.
