Nintendo shutting down Wii channels and online services

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oniyide said:

superchunk said:

No. I meant what I said. WiiU does not have acces to Wii Shop content directly. You have to go through Wii mode to get to it. Thus, they won't be shutting off Wii's Shop any time soon.

well how is that really different in the long run?

For Nintendo to be able to shut down the Wii Shop, they are going to need to transfer everything there over to the Wii U shop first.  It sounds easy, but there are some issues there.  Nintendo is in the process of making the VC games playable on the Wii U.  Right now they only run in Wii mode.  The emulators and games all need to be changed to run natively on the Wii U.  Then there is the question of what to do with the WiiWare games.  Those will probably only ever run in Wii mode, but maybe they can have their own section of the Wii U store.  I don't know how that will work though.