Whoa...got my wii u at the right time.

Hehe yeah. :)

I just hope that the old Wii games will connect via the Wii U.
I hope they update that software so that we can use Animal Crossing City Folk and connect using our Wii U.

I really hops that is true or it will be pretty lame if I cannot connect on the DS version or the Wii version.

Especially when I have a 3DS XL I am hoping that will connect ok on my 3DS. o.O

- grontalis

Oh no! i didn't even think about that! I hope so! That'd be lame to lose out on animal crossing.

Up to now, they have declared that all the games with the Blue Logo Wi-Fi online service will be closed whatever the console you play with. So I will have to break your dreams and say that Animal: City Folks will not be online playable on the Wii U...

I really wish myself they would have kept at least that part of the service opened but no...

AAAAWWW WHAAAAT?!

as I suspected, they're attempting to force us to upgrade by making older models practically useless

Practically useless? I never go online anyway with the wii. Single and multiplayer once was the only gaming out there, and has only improved. The wi-fi services cutting out doesn't really affect me

"The Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL are not effected by this though."

Well duh, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection & Nintendo Network are separate.

It won't affect me as I don't even use the Wi-Fi on my DS games.

Well, it's Nintendo. What did you expect.
They're struggling and looking for Ways to cut Costs.

That's why you pay for Pokémon Bank monthly.
Why the Wii's Online System has been shut off long ago.
And why the Rest of the old Online System [DS] now follows Track as well.


I've got SNES, Wii, GBC, GBA SP, GBA Micro, DS, DSlite and 3DS. And PS2, nothing else.
And I've gotta say Nintendo's Games have a sad History of becoming worse each Time I look at a new one.

Market Research said Asian Gaming Companies [including Nintendo] admitted to have no Idea what the Western Market wants (!).
That's why they keep repeating Stuff over and over again if they're lucky enough to 'accidentally' create something we seem to like.

Sad but true Story, Nintendo's -real- Success as the Gaming Company is undenyable long gone, and they're living in the Past. New Technologies for Performance as well as Online Connectivity [WEP for DS? Even back then, srsly?], Hell, even CD Drives back then [look up the Story about N64 and PSone]... Software / OS / Capabilities are more than limited... and gamewise, they're still producing Kid's Stuff mostly, when we're Adults now and Kids nowadays tend to get Microsoft or Sony instead.

Now I still wanna have Yoshi's New Island, but that's Nostalgia, nothing new - it's one of their old, successful Titles. Nintendo's gotta realize they have to grow up if they want to reclaim their already lost Position on the Market, but therefore, they have to stop being stuck in the Past and solely trying to live off of gimicky Console Ideas which will be ripped off and done better by the 'Big Guys' as soon as they prove to be succesfull enough.

PLEASE hear my Plea, Nintendo: Grow up!

To clarify: By 'grow up' I mean they need to push Efforts to continue making Games like Resident Evil: Revelation [3DS], not take a Character, make him black and evil, give him a Machine Gun and let the Player run through Human World Areas, shooting Human Soldiers [Sonic / Shadow]. WTF? "Battlefield and Star Wars seem to be succesful, let's throw something from there into Sonic"? <- My Personal Opinion, though. Just felt plain wrong.