News Channel (6/26/13) Night Before Wii Channel Shutdown

This video will cover the News Channel, and what it looked like before the shutdown of major online Wii Channels on June 27th 2013. I look over 2 news articles that were of my interest, and do a little globe trotting as well.

There will be at least one more video will be uploaded tonight that shows one more Wii Channel before shutdown.

News Channel

2006 - 2013

[tanookitoad]

Console internet services always fascinated me.

[expression]

I used to get my news from a reliable source

[MrCalpolkid]

Never knew what you had till it's gone...

[cbmysteryracerDEV]

This was such a weird channel for Nintendo to make. A news channel that reports news on potentially controversial topics seems out of character for a company like Nintendo to make. It just shows that Nintendo truly wanted the Wii to be a sort of entertainment center that families would use for lots of different things. Instead, most families just used it as a Wii Sports machine and shelved it when the mobile market hit the scene.

[ThePoopcornMachine]

I'm gonna miss the News Channel most of all....that cat ought to come back as a character in the next Smash Bros.!

[Goroumizu]

The globe was the best part in the News Channel
RIP 2006-2013 :, (

[CloverLovesTT]

i really regret being too young to take notice of all the wii's cool channels.

[chris]

Thank you for preserving this piece of history

[AB-rziw]

Just imagine how many Trump news would be over US every week if this was still up and working....

[TeamSilvertail]

The funny thing is, I never read anything on the News Channel, I just messed around with the globe.

[MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe]

Ah, 26th June 2013. Horrible day. Last day before my summer holidays that year. Got bullied till I cried in front of the whole class (in the middle of the class). Wanted to kill me in the summer holidays.

[jasonthekillerofninja]

They should add the forcast channel and the news channel to the wii u

[jayzeljomy]

This was actually my main source of news as a child - only this bcuz i didnt quite understand computers yet

[Marliemac]

You know if it was still around in 2020 all the articles would just be about corona, which is so annoying

[charliedog]

I feel like i’m not supposed to see the wii hand with all fingers out.

[JoeContext]

...Wait, hold on, did they seriously have a news application as a bonus for a device that's primary function is to play video games and not have a section for gaming news?

[Goomba]

I never played around with the channels much or anything so it is like nostalgia for things I've never seen

[ezreplayssongs]

0:39 when I got on, I couldn’t connect here’s what it said when WiiConnect24 is on:

Unable to connect to the internet.
WiiConnect24 cannot be used.
Check your connection settings.
I can’t remember the 4th sentence.

But without it:

WiiConnect24 is currently turned off.
I can’t remember any more sentences.

[lisazheng]

I think you forgot to do Check Mii Out Channel (6/26/13) Night Before Wii Channel Shutdown

[dagdand]

Use RiiConnect24. It let’s you use the old WC24 apps again