Brian Langlois from Kombo writes:
"WiiWare frustrates me. There have been a lot of good games for the service, but also a lot of junk. Par for the course on Wii I guess, but still. Every Monday I wait with baited breath, and more often than not I am disappointed. It's not that I want or expect there to be several great games every single week. I don't even get mad at the one-game Mondays we get occasionally. What I want is for the games that have been announced or that are even out in other regions to make it to the service. I'm saving points for certain releases and I will almost never spend them on something different once they've been earmarked for a specific title. Gradius: Rebirth has been teasing me for months now! It's disheartening when I want to be on the Wii Shop Channel downloading games, but can't because I think a better one will be out just next week. I think it prevents me from enjoying some of the good stuff that comes out in the meantime."
When a game released exclusively digitally disappears from distribution, it becomes impossible to play it legally. Actually, quite a few gems have disappeared in this manner, with the legendary P.T. being just the beginning of the story.
Nice message and physical should always be supported, but I am not supporting this article being set across like nine pages.
The Wii Shop Channel will be going offline very soon. Here's everything you'll need to know if you want to make some last minute purchases, or want to preserve any games that you've previously bought.
Luckily with the Homebrew scene on the Wii being as big as it is, you could still get these afterwards.
The Switch VC can't come soon enough. I wish they'd wait until then to phase out the Wii's VC.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "The official end of the WiiWare service may not be until early 2019 but we wanted to give everybody as much of a chance as possible to remember all of the great games that Nintendo’s first every download service brought us. Last week we counted down the first 10 games in our look at the Top 20 WiiWare games ever made, and if you haven’t had the chance yet you can check out those picks right here but now we switch our focus over to the very best that WiiWare has to offer so if you still have a Wii (or a Wii U) kicking around make sure to download these games before they are lost forever."
