has wii u been discontinued?
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Nintendo discontinued its production in November, 2016. But as late as November 2017, you could buy a Wii U directly from Nintendo, either on its own online store or via eBay, for $175. ... Today, Nintendo announced that the Switch has already outsold it after less than a year on the market.
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It's relatively easy to find this last-gen console for cheap, and the Wii U has a library of classic games that makes it just as worth buying as a Switch. By several metrics, the Wii U was a failure. It is Nintendo's worst-selling system, reaching only a little over 13 million units.
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Nintendo is switching off the eShop for Wii U and 3DS systems in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean on July 31, 2020. This means that affected countries won't be able to redeem codes for software, redownload games or download updates after this date for both systems.
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This service was shutdown due to the company being purchased by a mobile phone game company Glu-mobile. In short it was easier to shut down the servers and promote a new console than incorporate the wii u features and servers into a system that was pretty much obsolete.
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Nintendo to shut down Wii and DS online gaming servers. Nintendo has announced that it will be closing its Wii and DS online servers as of 20th May. Stopping the 'Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection' service will remove online multiplayer functionality from a large number of AAA games titles.
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Nintendo will shut down the Wii Shop channel on January 30th, 2019, marking the end of an era for the service that first came online for Wii consoles in December 2006.
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Nintendo will discontinue all video streaming services on Wii after January 31, 2019. Nintendo ended the production of the Wii gaming console in October 2013 seven years after its maiden launch to give way to the Wii U. ... Please visit netflix.com/wii for our device list."
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Is the Wii U eShop still open? Yes it's still open.
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- Officially listed as discontinued Its demise has been imminent for a while, with PS Vita games no longer supported by the firm's PlayStation Plus subscription service as of this Friday, 8 March, and physical game manufacturer being ceased last year.
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The Wii U is majorly different from the Wii. ... That's because the Wii U is a console and controller hybrid. Slide a disc into the Wii U, and you can play with it streaming video to your TV, but the Wii U can also stream video to the screen on the Wii U GamePad.
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Yes. It's possible to move data from a Wii console to Wii U with a system transfer. This will move across data including Mii characters, purchased content and save data, so you won't lose your progress in your favourite Wii games.
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The Wii U (/ˌwiː ˈjuː/ WEE YOO) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo as the successor to the Wii. ... The system's primary controller is the Wii U GamePad, which features an embedded touchscreen, directional buttons, analog sticks, and action buttons.
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"We decided to end the service at this time because, among other reasons, many users are shifting to social networking services," Nintendo said in an official statement. ... Users mourned the pending demise of the social network for gamers, and are mourning again now that the Nintendo Miiverse is gone for good.
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If you're hell bent on buying a Wii U, Nintendo refurbished is a good choice. I bought one of those $200 refurbished Wii U's from Nintendo nearly two and a half years ago, and it's worked just fine ever since. Good as new.
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No. The power supply is different, and while similar, the heads on the Wii and Wii U power supplies are different so you can't plug it in anyway.
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Nintendo to shut down Wii and DS online gaming servers. Nintendo has announced that it will be closing its Wii and DS online servers as of 20th May. ... Wii U and 3DS software will remain unaffected due to their use of the Nintendo Network.