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Wii U online services unavailable due to "technical difficulties"

Nintendo Insider writes:

Nintendo of America have confirmed that all online services for Wii U are currently unavailable due to technical difficulties.

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AsimLeonheart4078d ago

Nintendo and their bad lucks. No sales, no games and now no online. They keep running into troubles one after another.

ape0074078d ago

dude the nintendo hate is in your blood, ease up

still nintendo has the best exclusives in gaming

3-4-54078d ago

Water always finds it's level. They will be fine.

thezeldadoth4078d ago

i'm sure it wont last 2 months like that other companies big technical difficulty. 2 months, oh well right. but nintendo is doomed if they dont fix it in 12 hours.

AsimLeonheart4078d ago

@ape007
I didnt say anything hateful about Nintendo. I was not cheering or rejoicing. I just stated their current circumstances in a neutral manner.

jcnba284078d ago

LOL more like poor Sony. Remember PSN no?

N4g_null4078d ago

It doesn't matter I have to work on some stuff now then it monster hunter time and time to buy another 3ds! D ex will be fun also, then I guess I'll pick up Lego Gta lol. Oh I still have to get need for speed, bad EA bad!

gpturbo814078d ago

spoken like a true prepubescent

AsimLeonheart4078d ago (Edited 4078d ago )

@gturbo81

What? You guys are so sensitive that you get riled up even at stating facts. Do you want everyone to bury their head in the sand like you guys and say everything is okay? Take off your fanboy goggles and accept the reality. A person only resorts to personal insults when he can not make a sound argument, just like you. If you think you are an "adult" then argue like an adult. Oh and why do you naturally assume that the other person is a kid? Just because you have reached your teens or early 20s barely? Grow up boy... or manchild... or whatever you are.

PopRocks3594077d ago

@AsimLeonheart

"No online"

The online was down for all of a day. Barely a single day, not even a full day. Are you serious?

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jaymart2k4078d ago

Shut up, name 1 company that servers never failed.

Oh wait you can't.

PeaSFor4078d ago

"Shut up, name 1 company that servers never failed."

two wrongs don't make a right

Benjaminkno4078d ago

even Blizzard has had problems with their servers. Criticism towards them is just silly

Studio-YaMi4078d ago

Uh Oh what !?
1 online blackout and you people make it seem like it's the end for them,Sony & MS had the same issues MANY times !

jcnba284078d ago

I just checked on my Wii U, there's nothing wrong with online. This article is bullshit.

Baka-akaB4078d ago (Edited 4078d ago )

"Nintendo of America have confirmed" . No need to be angry , it's probably not even widespread and getting fixed or already fixed

Mustang300C20124078d ago

Well maybe you are one out of 5 with a Wii U worldwide Brah. It was confirmed stop tripping and if you are up why complain.

mudmax4078d ago

one out of 5 huh brah. I also been online all morning no problem. Only one tripping is you and you don't even have a wii u troll.

Benjaminkno4078d ago

You don't have a wii u so why are you here?

jmc88884078d ago

Don't worry about the troll, he's busy driving his small prickmobile.

MasterCornholio4078d ago

I hate to tell you this but Nintendo isn't a gaming company that produces flawless products. The With Us online service is relatively new so its bound to have some issues every once in a while.

Instead of living in denial you should just accept this and move on.

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SilentNegotiator4078d ago

But this is what people do for hits; they make an article about some technical problems in a very limited server area and call the service "down"/"unavail able"

stuna14078d ago

But how is this different from any other service that goes down?

SilentNegotiator4078d ago

...where did I suggest that this was a unique situation?

My point was that journalists love to make every interference out as some widespread, long-running issue when it isn't 95% of the time.

Seedhouse4078d ago

This was actually an issue worldwide, but the service has been restored now.

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josephayal4078d ago

I think Nintendo is testing their new WiiU2 prototype console

jmc88884078d ago

If that was true all it needs to do is beat 1.8 TFlops.

Literally strapping 3 Wii U's together WOULD do that.

josephayal4078d ago

I totally agree with you, the next generation of console gaming is right around the corner, PS3,DURANGO and the Wii u 2

N4g_null4078d ago

No it's a wiiu and 3ds taped together to play monster hunter! Next gen is already here.

Amigaengine4078d ago

Been playing Blops2 all morning no issue ?

ReLLiK4078d ago

I didn't know the Wii u had any games to play online...

mudmax4078d ago

Go away troll. Why are you reading wii u articles anyway. Come out of the closet, we know you want one or you wouldn't be reading this.

Benjaminkno4078d ago

Ha Ha ha.. that's hilarious!
That's why they troll!! Because they want one, but don't want to "betray" their brand.. bunch of jokes.

I just ordered my ZombiU bundle with the pro controller.. it gets here friday.. I've never been so excited about a console..

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos2d ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H92d ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX2d ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H92d ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro1d 22h ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

Kneetos1d 2h ago

At least they are safer from layoffs with Nintendo then any other company

banger882d ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk772d ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos2d ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris2d ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Game Developers Have Begun Confirming Nintendo Switch 2 Support

Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.

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How Many More Victims, Like Garry's Mod, Will Nintendo's Hurtful Crusade Create?

Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."

RiseNShine19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.

gold_drake19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.

nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.

people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly

mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.

zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.

nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.

its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.

but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.

Inverno18d ago

Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.