I'm actually racing against time to try and get the friend voucher stuff from the Metroid Prime games cause I never had it and heard that the Wii Connect 24 thing will also go away. And boy do those channels take me back, I remember the Wii was the only console I had so I used them often. I mean it's free stuff so might as well use them. While I wont really miss them, it's sad to see those channels go.
Run to your Wii!
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 On 06/25/2013 at 11:16 PM by Travis Hawks See More From This User » |
If you haven't heard, Nintendo plans to shut down the servers for several of the Wii channels that have been around for years this week. On June 28th, the Forecast Channel, the News Channel, the Everybody Votes Channel, the Nintendo Channel, and the Check Mii Out Channel will all cease to function. You'll also no longer be able to have Miis migrate amongst you and your friends' systems, which will sadly leave my Mii parade just shy of a thousand participants.
Although their usefulness and entertainment value was short lived and somewhat debatable, I really loved the inventiveness of the entire channel system and how well crafted most of them were. In fact, I wrote a lengthy piece about it some time ago that dug in to everything that was offered.
I almost never look at those channels any more, so I'm not really going to miss them, but it does make me sad that I won't be able to boot them back up in the future to remember what they were like. This is a sensation we'd better get used to, though, now that everything will soon be digital and most things will have some sort of reliance on "the cloud."
So, run to that Wii and give your opinion on what type of pizza topping is best and try to download as many Miss Piggy Miis before you lose the opportunity forever!
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