Nintendo has announced it has decided to end charging users for using the Wii Internet Channel from today, with the service now free to all.
Those who have paid 500 Wii Points to download the Internet Channel will now be offered a forthcoming free NES game, which will launch in October.
The Wii Internet Channel was free when the console first launched, but Nintendo decided to charge for the service once the browser and service had been completed.
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A good call on their part. However, I want to offer what might be a correction on this story; the way I heard it you’re not being given an ’upcoming NES VC release’, but rather being allowed to pick any available NES VC title valued at 500 points, once everything is ready for you to do so. The following is from the patch notes sent with the update:
"If you previously used 500 Wii Points to download the Internet Channel to your Wii console, at the end of October we will be offering you the opportunity to download, for 0 Wii Points, one NES game of your choice (valued at 500 Wii Points) from the Virtual Console catalog. Details of this download offer will be provided via the Wii Message Board or on Nintendo.com soon."
So either there’s some corporate miscommunication going on with Nintendo, or it’s actually a game of the user’s choice. Personally I’d rather they just refund the 500 points, but at least this is something.