Nintendo Wii U News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

This is just a quick reminder that Nintendo 3DS and Wii U online services will be discontinued next Monday, 8th April.

Wii U fans have brought the console's online multiplayer functionality back online, after Nintendo officially ended its own server support.

Yesterday, 8th April, saw the end of an era. Nintendo closed down the online services for its 3DS and Wii U consoles.

Two F-Zero games exclusively released on Nintendo's Satellaview SNES service have been restored by fans and are available to play for free.

Nintendo has confirmed the date and time of the online multiplayer server shutdown for Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS for 8th April.

Nintendo has announced that the online services for its older platforms—namely the 3DS and the Wii U—will be shut down on April 8. The announcement comes a few months after the shut down of the online services was announced back in October. For the sake of context, the ability to purchase titles on the eShop on these platforms was already discontinued back in March 2023.

Nintendo will stream its previously planned Legend of Zelda and Splatoon live concerts.

Nintendo has confirmed the date and time of the online multiplayer server shutdown for Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS for 8th April.

Nintendo is ending online play services for both the 3DS and Wii U on 8th April, the company confirmed earlier today. Previously, this shutdown was simply slated for some time in early April.

Wes Ball, the director of Nintendo's upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie, has discussed some of his ambitions for the project, saying he «would love to see a live-action Miyazaki» — a reference to legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, whose animated work includes Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Laputa: Castle in the Sky.

Nintendo's Hidemaro Fujibayashi and Eiji Aonuma have spoken more about the monsters they created for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, including the all new Horriblins and the return of Gleeoks.

This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we share our hopes and fears for Nintendo's now-officially confirmed The Legend of Zelda live-action movie.

Still doubtless beaming from the runaway success of this year's Super Mario Bros. movie, Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie is in the works.

After discontinuing shop purchases for the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS earlier this year in March, Nintendo has announced that online services for both platforms are ending in early April 2024. These include co-op, data distribution and internet rankings, and though Pokemon Bank continues to work, its online services may also end in the future.

Nintendo is shutting down Nintendo Wii U and 3DS online play in early 2024, the company has today announced.