Several Nintendo Wii Online Services Shutting Down On June 28

Several Nintendo Wii Online Services Shutting Down On June 28

Nintendo’s Wii U has was released this past November, although you wouldn’t know considering how bad its sales have been in recent months. But regardless how poorly it’s sales are, one thing we do know is the fact Nintendo will slowly but surely end its support for its Wii. The first phase of this will start soon as Nintendo has announced it will be ending some of the Wii’s services.

Nintendo published an “End of Life” notice to its Japanese Nintendo Wii customers highlighting six channels that will no longer be on-the-air starting June 28. The Wii channels that will have its services ended are its Forecast Channel, Check Mii Out Channel, News Channel, Everybody Votes Channel, Everyone’s Nintendo Channel and Data exchange between Wii friends on WiiConnect 24.

Hours after Japan published its End of Life notice, Nintendo of America sent out the following statement confirming U.S. Wii consoles would also be following Japan’s lead: (more…)

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Microsoft Services Interruption

Microsoft Services Interruption

Microsoft services such as SkyDrive, Hotmail and Outlook have been inaccessible for hours due to the ongoing migration process. Hotmail users might not be able to see all the emails and the issue has not been resolved. This has caused a massive backlash by frustrated users on Twitter #hotmail.

On Mar 12 at 3:41PM PDT, SkyDrive experienced issues with adding, editing and removing files. Users also received errors while publishing content with Windows Photo Gallery in an online album. The issue was resolved on the same day at 6:40 PM. (more…)

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