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From Nintendo's website:

Extended Maintenance

From Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:00 PM - Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:00 PM Pacific Time

Affected Services:

Wii U

- Nintendo eShop

*During the extended maintenance, parts of the affected services
may be intermittently unavailable.

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_status.jsp )

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I'm assuming that this is in preparation to the update, and it'll be available afterwards. Just a guess though.