Current Events > Wii and DSi users currently can't download past purchases from their shops.

(+) Yeah! (+)

This has been going on for days, and Nintendo has said nothing about it as of yet:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/wii-and-dsi-users-cant-download-past-purchases-right-now/1100-6501755/

Even though the DSi Shop was shut down in 2017, and the Wii Shop Channel in 2019, players could still connect to redownload any games that they had previously purchased from those shops. Right now, they can't even do that.

Thanks Nintendo you pieces of shit

It was inevitable.

Oh look, exactly what I've been saying for years about digital purchases is happening. Almost like people should have listened instead of the inevitable surprisedpikachuface.jpg

Wtf? I thought they were discontinuing paying for them.

Payzmaykr posted...

Wtf? I thought they were discontinuing paying for them.

You honestly think a company is going to continue maintaining servers for an unsupported product? Lol.

Zero_Slash posted...

You honestly think a company is going to continue maintaining servers for an unsupported product? Lol.

I dont see why we cant download what we already paid for.

lmao @ the lazy digital only crowd

enjoy your bed

Zero_Slash posted...

Oh look, exactly what I've been saying for years about digital purchases is happening. Almost like people should have listened instead of the inevitable surprisedpikachuface.jpg

Honestly, almost all of modern gaming should be taken as impermanent. It's not quite subscription-based, but it's close. Physical gaming is becoming worse and worse, not more reliable. Plenty of Facebook games and mobile games are already lost forever. I don't think that make digital purchases any worse unless there's an honest alternative, just be aware of the limitations.

Lordgold666 posted...

lmao @ the lazy digital only crowd

enjoy your bed

The problem is that there are games that were only available via online stores, and not through a physical medium.

Especially with the Wii and DSi. Some of those games have never even been rereleased elsewhere.

Lordgold666 posted...

lmao @ the lazy digital only crowd

enjoy your bed

Physical game buyers are going to feel it too. Nearly every game these days gets patches. Those physical copies are going to be playing broken versions of the game in many cases.

Son Of Spam posted...

Physical game buyers are going to feel it too. Nearly every game these days gets patches. Those physical copies are going to be playing broken versions of the game in many cases.

The vast majority of games are not Skyrim on the PS3 and will work fine without patches.

Son Of Spam posted...

Physical game buyers are going to feel it too. Nearly every game these days gets patches. Those physical copies are going to be playing broken versions of the game in many cases.

Not to mention physical also deteriorates and gets broken over time, nothing is forever.

voldothegr8 posted...

Not to mention physical also deteriorates and gets broken over time, nothing is forever.

Physical games seem to be winning the lifespan battle over digital games. Digital stores barely last ten years.

I continue to enjoy Final Fantasy VII PS1 physical.

I stopped caring about physical games once patches and having to install every game. Just whatever.

voldothegr8 posted...

Not to mention physical also deteriorates and gets broken over time, nothing is forever.

All of my NES games and CDs from the mid 80s still work fine. The discs are gonna last a hell of a lot longer than the servers will. There's no way you're still gonna be able to download the PSN games you bought for the PS3 in 2040.

i'm going to get modded but this is a non issue, whenever these games stop being supported like this, you'll able to get a rom for them easy peasy

and if you have problem with downloading games illegally then what's the harm in this scenario? they're not making money off these games regardless if they're not selling them. just steal the fucking shit then

Payzmaykr posted...

I dont see why we cant download what we already paid for.

Because the company is no longer maintaining the servers for those games and systems. This is exactly the problem with digital purchases and I've been saying this since the beginning. "That will never happen! Digital is the future!" Lmao.

voldothegr8 posted...

Not to mention physical also deteriorates and gets broken over time, nothing is forever.

No it doesn't unless you abuse it. I still have perfectly functioning Atari 5600 and Colecovision consoles and games that have been handled by two generations of children. Meanwhile, your digital store Wii and DSi games...

Zero_Slash posted...

No it doesn't unless you abuse it. I still have perfectly functioning Atari 5600 and Colecovision consoles and games that have been handled by two generations of children. Meanwhile, your digital store Wii and DSi games...

All electronics die eventually

voldothegr8 posted...

All electronics die eventually

The universe will die eventually.

CaptainStrong posted...

The vast majority of games are not Skyrim on the PS3 and will work fine without patches.

There are many games these days that have 10+ GB day one patches. Halo MCC doesn't even have multiplayer without a patch.

Son Of Spam posted...

There are many games these days that have 10+ GB day one patches. Halo MCC doesn't even have multiplayer without a patch.

To be fair 10 years from now the Master Chief Collection will not have multiplayer period.

Nintendo online anything is always garbage

voldothegr8 posted...

All electronics die eventually

At least the physical ones have proven they can last 40+ years. Digital-only servers, though...

Irony posted...

To be fair 10 years from now the Master Chief Collection will not have multiplayer period.

Though it will also mean no offline multiplayer either.

Not listing anything on any of their sites if this is the shutdown is odd even for Nintendo.

I am all about physical too, but some of the best Wii games were only digital. Like Castlevania and Contra Reborn are excellent games and they're digital only.

I mean did people not know / expect this to happen?

https://youtu.be/Tk__xTU5YRc

And then they complain about piracy

Zero_Slash posted...

Because the company is no longer maintaining the servers for those games and systems. This is exactly the problem with digital purchases and I've been saying this since the beginning. "That will never happen! Digital is the future!" Lmao.

No it doesn't unless you abuse it. I still have perfectly functioning Atari 5600 and Colecovision consoles and games that have been handled by two generations of children. Meanwhile, your digital store Wii and DSi games...

Theres nothing special about dsi download servers. Its a computer that holds a file and serves it on request. They have existed for decades before the dsi and will exist for decades after the switch. Stop dodging with its old and unsupported. This is purely an anti-consumer act committed by an anti-consumer company

Kloe_Rinz posted...

And then they complain about piracy

Yeah, because they want you to rebuy the game a few a million times to keep padding their pockets.

Lordgold666 posted...

lmao @ the lazy digital only crowd

enjoy your bed

i don't get the smugness here. it's not like the games have been removed from people's dses and wiis. they still have them.

also you can lose your physical game just as well as somebody can lose their digital one. Lose your physical copy, lose your digital copy. either way you'll have to see if you can find another way to play it. if the game is still sold digitally you can redownload it. if it's available physically (and not marked up) then you can buy it.

Or just download a rom.

And Nintendo wonders why people emulate games.

This is why I will always consider digital piracy a net positive for society.

Not that I would ever condone violating copyright laws. That's illegal and wrong and you should never do it.

But, at the very least, games that would otherwise have been irrecoverably lost to time are able to be preserved in some form.

Hopefully we get to a point where content preservation isn't reliant on breaking the law. >__>

Wetterdew posted...

i don't get the smugness here. it's not like the games have been removed from people's dses and wiis. they still have them.

What about the people who don't have every digital game they bought downloaded to the console? And what if the console fails? Before, you could replace it and redownload all the games you bought. But not anymore.

This is gonna be a huge issue for people who bought a ton of digital games on the PS3. At least with the Wii and DSi, the games were small and I doubt many people bought so much they can't fit it all on a 32 GB SD card. PS3 games can be tens of gigabytes. I'm sure there are plenty of people who have more digital games for the PS3 than they can fit on a 1TB hard drive, the biggest the PS3 supports. And once Sony shuts down the downloading servers in 5 or 6 years, they're fucked.

Nintendo finally says something:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-03-20-nintendo-wii-shop-and-the-nintendo-dsi-shop-channels-have-been-offline-for-days

Nintendo has finally commented on the Wii and DSi eShop channels, after days of unexplained downtime and increasing fan concern over their future.

In a statement to Eurogamer this morning, Nintendo said the storefronts were "undergoing maintenance", with no word on when they might return.

"The Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop are currently undergoing maintenance," a Nintendo spokesperson said. "We will provide an update at a later date."

Prior to the storefronts' disappearance, Nintendo seemingly made no mention of maintenance plans.