Nintendo To Cancel Weather, News, and Other Built-In Wii Apps In June 175
damn_registrars writes "Nintendo has announced that at the end of June it will be canceling the services of several of the channels that are built in to the original Wii, including the Weather, News, Everybody Votes, and Mii Contest. This will also affect the WiiConnect24 services, though should not affect the Wii shopping channel. They added: 'Exchange of Wii messages on the Wii Message Board, exchange of Mii characters on the Mii Channel and message/data exchange within some games will be disabled.'"
Re:Translation ... (Score:5, Funny)
"Nintendo to cancel weather, news" (Score:5, Funny)
For a moment, I seriously wondered whether they could do that. But if anyone could cancel the weather, and the news, it'd probably be Nintendo.
Re:Is Nintendo starting to close up shop? (Score:5, Funny)
You do realize* the Wii U is simply a Wii
With an updated CPU and GPU and a lot more RAM.
with 720p
1080p.
and an overpriced
Says you.
external screen that does nothing except show you what is on the TV
...or anything else the system wants to show, and is also an input device.
I was going to get one until I realized it offered nothing at all over the Wii.
It may not offer enough for you, but it's just being churlish to suggest that that equates to "nothing." You sound like Grandpa Simpson when he said that a fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached.