User blog comment:UltimateMegaGeo/Nintendo makes yet another productive business decision!/@comment-1518158-20140302213652

>on various Wii U

You made a mistake there, UMG.

And this is no surprise to me. The Wii and DS have pretty much run their course, their successors have been released, and they're not selling a ton anymore so there's no need to keep these services running. It's not out of the ordinary either, servers for old online games are always shut down (this has already happened to Dreamcast, Xbox, and some PS360 games), we're lucky Nintendo actually bothered to keep these up for so long. It's not a business decision, just common sense.

The only bad thing I see about this is that Pokemon Black/White 2 haven't even been out for a couple of years yet so it's sorta unfair that they're getting the axe so early in their lifetime especially considering Poke games have really long legs, but other than that, the only other online games with an even remotely similar userbase (Mario Kart DS and Wii) have already had their players move onto 7 and 8.