Bad news for anyone trying to redownload some old DSi Games or Wii titles via each console’s Store channels: Currently, players are reporting downtime on both channels and have been for 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 owned and did not have a chance to download before a possible sudden closure could be blocked.
revision: This story originally confused the 3DS and DSi. This has been fixed and the links and title have been changed to reflect the patch.
As I spotted it EurogamerIt seems that since March 16, the official Nintendo DSi and Wii Store Channels She was not connected to the internet. If this closure was permanent and these stores never returned, it appears that they are closed without prior warning from Nintendo.
To be clear: You haven’t been able to buy anything on the Wii Shopping Channel since 2019. And the DSi Store stopped letting you purchase content before that in 2017.
However, in both cases, Nintendo hasn’t announced any specific dates or plans for when these stores will close completely. If it’s actually closed for good, with no 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 gamers may want a few months to download and install some of their favorite or hard-to-find DSi and Wii exclusives before closing the door on the servers for good.
Kotaku I contacted Nintendo about the stores being down for several days and if they had plans to bring them back online.
On the page announcing the news that Nintendo was ending support for the DSI Store, This is what the publisher said about the futureFocus for me:
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 as of now. If you are considering moving your DSiWare content to your Nintendo 3DS family system, we encourage you to do so as soon as possible while the service is available. “
Once again on the support page, she announces her plans for the Wii Shop channelyou can find a similar message, this is what Nintendo does acknowledgment 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 the Wii system to the Wii U system. Be aware that These features will eventually expire at a later date. “
However, it seems foolish to pull the plug completely in these stores without warning. It’s also possible that this is just a long amount of downtime due to some behind-the-scenes issues or technical hiccups that we’re not aware of. If so, Nintendo has yet to (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 via third-party tools like NUSDownloader. This seems to mean that the servers are still running at some capacity, but the storefronts are down for an unknown reason.
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