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 might present any extra clarification about what is going on on. Sadly, the brand new assertion is that it is nonetheless bought “nothing to announce” in regards to the present standing of those outages. You may see Nintendo’s authentic response beneath.
Authentic 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 a minimum of sixteenth March. Naturally, it sparked fears that this might doubtlessly be the tip of those digital shops, though Nintendo hadn’t communicated this.
Luckily, it seems there might not be something to fret about – with the corporate now offering an official assertion (through Kotaku). In response to a consultant, it is presently present process upkeep and an replace might be offered within the close to future.
“The Wii Store Channel and Nintendo DSi Store are presently present process upkeep. We are going to present an replace at a later date.”
As beforehand famous, though Nintendo stopped sport 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 sport 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 have been taken offline”.
If we hear every other updates, we’ll let you realize.