archer9234 said: That was different for Nintendo. They didn't pull a EA. Gamespy died. They where the company running Wii servers. |
No, it wasn't different for Nintendo. EA used the same GameSpy-excuse: http://www.ea.com/news/update-on-ea-titles-hosted-on-gamespy
The writing was on the wall since 2012 when the first batch of games using GameSpy lost online support. Nintendo, EA and other publishers had enough time to switch popular games to their own servers or buy the GameSpy servers or whatever.