Ever since its debut in December 2006, Nintendo UK has announced that the Wii Shop Channel will be closing down on both the Wii and Wii U sometime in 2019.
-Adding points to the Wii Shop Channel will end Monday 26th March 2018 at 21:00 UK time.
-Purchase of WiiWare, Virtual Console software, Wii Channels (including free software)* will end Thursday, 31st January 2019 at 06:00 UK time.
-Full closure of the Wii Shop Channel and disabling of redownload functions in 2019 (more details to be announced at a later date).
If there were any games on Virtual Console or Wiiware that you were thinking about buying, now would be the time to do so.
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