Looks like the Nintendo Wii Shop and Nintendo DSi Shop channels were taken offline.
Without Nintendo’s announcement, players will not know if this is unplanned maintenance or a sign that stores have been permanently removed. As of this writing, it is believed that the stores will be closed from at least March 16th.
Although players may not be able to purchase new content from both stores for some time, they will not be available to players Already Purchased digital items are currently unrecoverable.
Most interesting of all, when stores display error codes – 290502 and 209601 for each, respectively – some sources suggest that Nintendo’s main server is not yet running, so games can still be downloaded. Pre-finalized sites taken offline (thanks, gbatemp Via Reset Era)
At this time, Nintendo has not publicly commented on the crash.
Nintendo’s Russian eShop was recently “temporarily put on maintenance” after its payment service provider suspended processing ruble payments.
The Google Translate version of the eShop report further states: “Nintendo is suspending processing of ruble payments due to payment service used in eShop. Nintendo eShop in Russia has been temporarily maintained.”
It should be noted that this temporary suspension of service does not appear to be the result of Nintendo’s own actions, but rather the actions of third parties. Unlike Microsoft, EA and CD Project – all of which have stopped selling their products in Russia due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine in Russia – Nintendo has not yet publicly commented on the matter.
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