Nintendo has not yet explained why the online store interfaces of its two most successful platforms have become inaccessible.
The Nintendo Wii Shop Channel and the Nintendo DSi Shop Channel are the two interfaces through which we can access our previously purchased games. But whoever tries this on the Wii Shop will first see a blank page and then a few minutes later will get the error message 209601: unable to connect to the server, please try again later, visit the Nintendo Customer Support website.
Even if we do that, we still don’t get much information. This is because the big N here says that error message 209601 usually means that we can’t establish a good connection over Wi-Fi due to interference. And that may not be the case, is it, because if there hadn’t been a problem before, why all of a sudden? Anyway, the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel shut down the ability to shop there in 2019, but we were still able to access the content we already bought after that.
Nintendo has previously announced that such access will end at an indefinite date, but the company has not provided any details in this regard. Users get another error message on the Nintendo DSi Shop: there, error code 290502 pops up, which again says an error message indicating wireless interference, which again doesn’t seem very logical. Since similar error messages appear on both platforms (the code is different, but the content is the same for the two), there may have been only a minor bug in Nintendo’s port, but since the Japanese company didn’t make a big statement about the matter, it all seems a bit worrying.
We have previously written that the eShop will be shut down on the Nintendo Wii Un and Nintendo 3DS in March 2023, so games cannot be purchased on either of these two platforms (but downloads, upgrades, and online gameplay will remain). Maybe a Nintendo did you shoot the Wii / DSi duo directly?
Source: VGC
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