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The games are sorted by system and in the order they were added in the Wii Shop Channel. To sort by other categories, click the corresponding icon in the header row. Nintendo discontinued the Wii Shop Channel on January 31, 2019 worldwide (with the function to add Wii Points and purchase and play VC games and/or WiiWare being permanently ...
This is a list of original downloadable games on the Wii video game console that could only be downloaded from the WiiWare section of the Wii Shop Channel. Translations of Japanese exclusive titles are highlighted between parenthesis. All WiiWare titles could be transferred to and/or purchased via Wii Mode on the Wii U console.
A Successor to both services was made with the introduction of NES and later SNES games on Nintendo Switch Online. Nintendo discontinued the Wii Shop Channel on January 31, 2019, worldwide (with the purchase of Wii Points for new games having ended on March 26, 2018, worldwide).
Some of these games were also available on the Wii Virtual Console, which can be played through Wii U's Wii Mode, but these legacy versions lack some features of the Wii U Virtual Console. While Wii Virtual Console titles cannot be played using the Wii U GamePad's controls, a September 2013 system update enabled the use of the GamePad's screen ...
The WiiWare service was officially launched in 2008: on March 25 in Japan, [8] on May 12 in North America, [9] and on May 20 in the PAL/UK regions. [10]In October 2007, Nintendo held a press conference in Japan revealing the first batch of major Japanese WiiWare games including My Pokémon Ranch, Dr. Mario Online Rx, and Square Enix's Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King. [11]
The Virtual Console [a] was a line of downloadable retro video games for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U home video game consoles and the Nintendo 3DS family of handheld systems. The Virtual Console lineup consisted of titles originally released on past home and handheld consoles and were run in their original forms through software emulation (excluding Game Boy Advance titles on the 3DS and Wii ...
The Wii system software is a set of updatable firmware versions and a software frontend on the Wii, a home video game console.Updates, which could be downloaded over the Internet or read from a game disc, allowed Nintendo to add additional features and software, as well as to patch security vulnerabilities used by users to load homebrew software.
The following is the complete list of the 659 Virtual Console titles that were available for the Wii in Japan sorted by system and release dates. The last new title was released on April 9, 2013, and the ability to purchase new titles ended on January 31, 2019.