Nintendo stops Tuesday online multiplayer for Wii and DS

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Users of Nintendo’s DS and Wii have as of Tuesday, no longer have access to Nintendo’s Wi-Fi Connection service. The service is maintained, among others, the online-multiplayer for many games. The Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, however, will not suffer.

Nintendo showed at the end of February already know it was going to stop offering the free Wi-Fi Connection service. With that service, players could play against each other over the internet. Also, matchmaking and leaderboards from Tuesday are no longer available.

The going offline of the service will have no impact on other services such as the browser, YouTube, the shop, and Netflix. Nintendo of the Netherlands has published a list of Nintendo games that are affected by the offline get experience. It is on the list, among other games like Super Smash Bros. Brawl and a large number of Pokémon games.

It is not entirely clear why the Wi-Fi Connection service is offline. There are messages at IGN that the acquisition of GameSpy by Glu Mobile also on rise. The turn off of the Gamespy servers by Glu also led to the disappearance of online-functions for a large number of old pc-games and on a support page of GameSpy said that, this provider also for the middleware and backend service of the Wii and DS crowd.

Nintendo stopped in march 2009 with the production of the DS Lite, and in October 2013 was the last Wii produced. A very important service was Wi-fi Connection does not, however, even though it had a lot of games have support for.

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