Monday, November 12, 2018

Netflix To Shut Down Service On Wii

Netflix, the streaming movie and television service which has significant operations in the Los Angeles area, told its users over the weekend that it will be shutting down access to its service from Nintendo's venerable Wii gaming console. According to Netflix, it is shutting down its services ahead of Nintendo's announced closing of the Wii Shop Channel on Nintendo Wii in 2019. Netflix said that services on the console will only be available until January 31, 2019. The shutdown--while disappointing to existing Wii users--is not unexpected, given that the Wii platform is over a decade old, and Nintendo has been phasing out support for connected services on the console over the last few years.

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