Replace [Sat 21st May, 2022 18:05 BST]: Two months after the Wii and DSi Store channel outages, YouTube channel GameExplain has now reached out to Nintendo to see if it may present any extra clarification about what is going on on. Sadly, the brand new assertion is that it is nonetheless received “nothing to announce” concerning the present standing of those outages. You may see Nintendo’s authentic response under.
Unique article [Wed 23rd Mar, 2022 01:05 GMT]: Final week, phrase shortly unfold on-line that Nintendo’s Wii and DSi Store Channels had been offline since at the very least sixteenth March. Naturally, it sparked fears that this might probably be the tip of those digital shops, though Nintendo hadn’t communicated this.
Happily, it seems there is probably not something to fret about – with the corporate now offering an official assertion (through Kotaku). In response to a consultant, it is at the moment present process upkeep and an replace can be supplied within the close to future.
“The Wii Store Channel and Nintendo DSi Store are at the moment present process upkeep. We are going to present an replace at a later date.”
As beforehand famous, though Nintendo stopped recreation gross sales on the Wii Store and DSi Store Channels a while in the past, customers of those platforms have nonetheless capable of entry the digital shops to re-download current recreation purchases.
Some customers have additionally reportedly been capable of bypass the error codes – 290502 and 209601 – with third-party instruments like NUSDownloader and entry Nintendo’s foremost server for these methods. Eurogamer additional notes the way it seems to be “simply the frontend websites themselves which were taken offline”.
If we hear every other updates, we’ll let you already know.
