Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Ends Tuesday for Wii, DS

@rulerofeden: I'm ok with servers ending but if a game is still very active it should stay on.

I'm willing to bet Mario Kart Wii still gets some gamers, now it's time to kill it and force fans to move to the new Wii U game, that is conveniently coming out in a few days.

Boy, they didn't give people very long to move their Pokemon from Black/White over to the new games, unless that works on a different system.

well, this sucks. Its kinda sad its shutting down so early, especially for Pokemon BW2, which hasn't been out for 2 years in the west yet.

@pxabstraction: Yes

Wait, was Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection powered by GameSpy's technology?!

isn't this because of gamespy closing? how is this Nintendo's fault?

Edit : Kudos to Patrick for mentioning the gamespy closure in this story ... oh wait.

A great point.

This article just reminded me that I still need to get a copy of Picross 3D, which I guess will now be slightly less cool but THAT GAME IS STILL SUPER AWESOME

So many things I never done did...

I only got Monster Hunter Tri about a month before Capcom shut those servers down, so that kind of sucked. I thought the list of Wii games would be longer. I know the Brawl community is pretty bummed about this.

Farewell, Mario Kart DS. We had some good times. Farewell, Mario Kart DS snakers. Eat shit and die :)

I'm a little sad that I'll never get further with the weekly "DLC" in Dragon Quest. But I did about 2/3 of those quests years ago before stalling out forever. 202 hours of entertainment in one cartridge is nothing to sneeze at! And if I ever want a "perfect" save I've heard rumblings that there are illicit ways to do that.

Mario Kart DS online was immediately ruined for me by everyone getting absurdly good at snaking and only half of the courses in the game being available.

It's just sad that companies don't plan ahead and implement an option that doesn't use their service, even though it would disable some benefits of the service such as matchmaking, stats tracking or whatever that would be, such as an option to host or connect directly to a specific IP. It's understandable that their own service won't last forever, but lots of 90's and early 00's PC games are still very playable today thanks to the foresight of developers implementing an alternate way of connecting to games beyond their own metaserver, and I suppose the knowledge that it's totally possible to play Descent 3, QuakeWorld, even CyberStrike (which was originally made for the long defunct GEnie Online Service in 1993) online today, makes the concept of irrevocably closing a much more recent game down seem pretty weird.

Well, fuck you too, Nintendo.

I got most of my nintendo wii-fi time playing Monster Hunter Tri online and that shut down a while ago, so I'm not too sad about this. I did play Mario Kart Wii online a few times, though.

"The many hours spent playing Mario Kart DS in college are suddenly coming back to me."

Exactly. Although I'd also put Tetris DS in that sentence.

That'd be amazing.

In my dreams, Jeff resurrects NDX for a special reunion episode.

Reading this list hurts.

@jetman81: Not my router to mess with, otherwise I would. Oh well.

Farewell Mario Kart DS, I'll miss you. Farewell snaking Dry Bones bastards, I won't miss you.

I assume Giant Bomb won't be doing a farewell stream?

It wasn't listed, I think we're safe. Hopefully.

While this is a bummer for sure, I've always found the internet's reaction odd when online servers get shut down. They bitch and whine and get actively angry about servers that are getting shut down after, in some cases, 10 years of being active.

Is it really so inconceivable a concept that a company might shut down their decade-old legacy servers? It's saving bandwidth costs, and it will (hopefully) allow Nintendo to upgrade the current servers. The internet acts like it's this outrageous thing, when it's really, really not.

QUICK EDIT: I don't mean anyone on Giant Bomb, I was talking more about the rest of the internet. The comments on this article seem generally somber but not angry.

Ah man. No more Jump Ultimate Stars for me I guess D:

Crap, this affects all the Professor Layton games and Picross 3D.

This means a whole bunch of content will go away forever.

@crippl3: If your router happens to support dual bands, you could change one of them to an open network and give it a different name, then log on that way. Or just change your main network to not have a password for a while. What's the worst that could happen?

Not 100 Classic Books!

I'm really gonna miss playing Mario Kart Wii. I spent 100's of hours racing online since that game came out in 2008.

Booo!

:(

Looks like I'll be jumping on Mario Kart DS today.

EDIT: I can't since I have a WPA router, so I can't connect to it with my DS. Worst day :(

Over the aero-waves!

sending?