Nintendo Wii and DSi Shop Channels Have Seemingly Been Offline for Days Without Warning [IGN]

As reported by Eurogamer, both shopping channels have been down since March 16 with no indication whether it was done for maintenance or if Nintendo has taken them offline for good.

Players have been unable to purchase new items from the Wii shop since 2019 and DSi shop since 2017, but its current state of being down altogether means players who’ve already purchased games digitally on the platforms are unable to officially download them.

The main server, however, is allegedly still running, meaning games can still be downloaded via third party tools such as NUSDownloader, meaning it may just be the apps themselves that have been taken offline and not the overall service.

While it’s not necessarily unusual for the stores to be taken offline at this stage, as the Wii was discontinued close to a decade ago in 2013 and the DSi in 2014, what is odd is that Nintendo didn’t give any warning or explanation for it happening.

It announced in February, for example, that the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShops would be discontinued in 2023, giving players plenty of warning to make any purchases or redeem any codes before it no longer became an option.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale.