I'm still playing Goldeneye 007 on Wii online so Wii U has years to go.....

So they closed down the Store as well?

Tbh with the upcoming unified platform I don't think it will be shut down as all platforms current gen and future will be using it essentially meaning platforms will be online as long as the unified platform is. Only difference is some hardware will have access to features others won't.

With games like splatoon, I think they are keeping it for their next console to, to expand it's life.

I'd say when the company's next console is released. So sooner rather than later. WiiU is a colossal failure when put up against Wii's success. But Wii's model never looked like a long term thing to me. Hence why I predicted WiiU's failure long ago. I'd love to be a Nintendo fanboy again but as of right now there's nothing in the industry that Nintendo is the leader in. Especially online!

This post.

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It depends on how they change their online setup between the WiiU and the NX. I doubt there will be that much of a difference. Since they will be setting up their new online service with the NX in mind they will probally patch the code for the Wii U to work with the new systems they put into place and the Wii U doesn't have as many specialized services that the Wii had (News channel, etc) I really do not see them ending the WiiU network support anytime soon, even after the release of the NX, it will more then likely die a "natural" death of user loss.

If they really cared they would have went to different servers...... 

2021

I thought Wii relied on Gamespy and that was why it shut down. It most likely would still be running Wii games if it did not shut down.