{"id":11684,"date":"2018-01-31T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/reminder_time_to_purchase_wii_shop_points_is_running_out"},"modified":"2018-01-31T04:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T04:20:00","slug":"reminder-time-to-purchase-wii-shop-points-is-running-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/31\/reminder-time-to-purchase-wii-shop-points-is-running-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Time To Purchase Wii Shop Points Is Running Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Wii Shop Channel\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/reminder_time_to_purchase_wii_shop_points_is_running_out\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/reminder_time_to_purchase_wii_shop_points_is_running_out\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Wii Shop Channel\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A few months ago, Nintendo made the expected announcement that it would begin the process of shuttering the Wii Shop Channel, following on from the DSi shoppe which met a similar end. Now that all other online applications for the Wii have been discontinued, those who still purchase games on the Wii Shop have until January 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2019 to download games from the storefront.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this can\u2019t be done directly\u2014Wii Shop Points must be purchased first\u2014and Nintendo recently put out a blog post reminding fans of the impending cutoff date for the digital currency. At 1:00 PM PST on March 26, Nintendo will be removing the ability to buy Wii Shop Points, bringing the storefront to a soft close. So, if you\u2019re still interested in picking up a Virtual Console or WiiWare game, now\u2019s the time to do it.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? What was your favorite WiiWare game? Will you be buying any more Wii Shop Points? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, Nintendo made the expected announcement that it would begin the process of shuttering the Wii Shop Channel, following on from the DSi shoppe which met a similar end. Now that all other online applications for the Wii have been discontinued, those who still purchase games on the Wii Shop have until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}