Posts Tagged ‘Wii’

PSA – last call to spend Wii Shop Channel Points

January 1, 2019

Over a year ago, Nintendo announced they will be shutting down the Wii’s Shop Channel. In what might be the strangest heads-up time in the history of gaming, Nintendo gave users many months to add Wii Points ($1 = 100 Wii Points) to their account [...]

by squallsnake

MyNintendo Now Offers Decent Platinum Points Discounts (As Opposed to Gold Points)...

March 18, 2018

Since the MyNintendo program was initiated, users could spend Gold Points to earn a small discount on digital eShop titles. Gold Points are earned by purchasing physical and digital copies of qualifying games. However, Nintendo is now offering decent [...]

by squallsnake

PSA: Final Call for Wii Shop Channel Purchases – Suggested Games Here

March 10, 2018

Nintendo has announced they will be shutting down the Wii Shop Channel on both the Wii and the backwards compatibility on the Wii U soon. To be clear, the actual Wii Shop Channel will remain open until January 31, 2019. However, the big detail to note, [...]

by squallsnake

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Old Skool Super Controller for SNES Classic Review

February 2, 2018

Hope You Don’t Have To Go This Route I was lucky enough to snag myself a SNES Classic, one of the hardest gadgets to find over the last several months since its initial release. I was unlucky enough to have one of my official Nintendo SNES Classic [...]

by squallsnake

Nintendo Shutting Down Wii Shop Channel

September 29, 2017

Nintendo announced that they will be shutting off the Wii Shop Channel on January 31, 2019. However, it is important to note that users will only be able to add Wii Points, currency used to purchase Wii Shop Channel content, until March 27, 2018. This [...]

by squallsnake

Wii’s YouTube App Ending June 2017

June 1, 2017

If you are still using your Nintendo Wii and fire up the YouTube app, users will be greeted with this message: “Notice: This YouTube app will no longer be supported. After 6/30/2017, the YouTube app on this device will no longer be supported, but you can [...]

by squallsnake

PSA: You’re My Nintendo Coins Might Have Already Expired

October 3, 2016

Use Them Or Lose Them Nintendo replaced their old Club Nintendo rewards program with their new My Nintendo program back in April of 2016. If you registered back when the program first launched, earned a bunch of coins but never used them, like me, then [...]

by squallsnake

Nintendo Announces New 3DS Mario Bundle, Next Wave of Selects, and New amiibo Game...

August 11, 2016

Gearing up for the holiday shopping season, Nintendo is re-releasing a bunch of their games and hardware since their new console, the NX, won’t be available until sometime in 2017. Lucky for us gamers, this is a great time to take advantage of some [...]

by squallsnake

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