After six and a half years, news, weather, contests, and opinion polls will be no more.
Five channels and a number of online features on the Wii will be discontinued in June, Nintendo announced today.
The Nintendo Channel, Forecast Channel, News Channel, Everybody Votes Channel, and Check Mii Out Channel (known as the Mii Contest Channel in Europe) are all to be taken offline on this date, and will be inaccessible if a user tries to access them from the Wii menu.
Certain data exchange features will also be disabled, including transferring Mii characters and sending mail over the Wii Message Board. With the shutdown of WiiConnect24, online functionality in certain games may be affected as well.
These channels will be taken down on June 28 in Japan, Europe, and Australia. An exact date for North America has not been confirmed.
Other online channels, namely the Wii Shop Channel, Netflix, and for UK consoles, LOVEFiLM and the BBC iPlayer, will all remain available.