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All WiiWare titles could be transferred to and/or purchased via Wii Mode on the Wii U console. The last officially released WiiWare title was the Crunchyroll app on October 15, 2015. [1] Nintendo discontinued the Wii Shop Channel on January 30, 2019, nearly a year after the purchase of Wii Points ended on March 26, 2018. [2] [3]
The following is a list of the 427 games that were available on the Virtual Console for the Wii in North America. These games could also be played on the Wii U through Wii Mode, but lack the additional features found in Wii U Virtual Console releases.
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]
VC games were released every fortnight with WiiWare games being released every other week instead between June 2008 and April 2009. This cycle was broken only on August 29, 2008 (part of Hanabi Festival 3) and on March 25, 2009 (VCA launch).
The list of GameCube games lists the GameCube games compatible with most models of the Wii, while the list of WiiWare games documents all of the smaller, digital only games released for the Wii. Any games originally released for other platforms that were re-released games under the Virtual Console banner are additionally documented at the List ...
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 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 titles on Wii ...
This category includes articles that deal with WiiWare games for Nintendo's Wii video game console, available only through the Wii's eShop digital distribution storefront. The Wii's eShop's was discontinued on January 30, 2019, rendering the games in this category inaccessible after that point unless they were ported to other platforms.
The Wii system software is a discontinued 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.