Nintendo Officially Closes Miiverse After 5 Years of Service

<p>Just five years after it went live&comma; Nintendo has closed the doors on Miiverse&comma; accessed both through the Wii U and the 3DS&period; For any players that attempt to access it&comma; they will be met merely with an error screen&period; Additionally&comma; <em>Super Mario Maker<&sol;em> has been updated on both the 3DS and the Wii U &comma;aking comments no longer accessible or permitted&period; You can however still download and upload levels&comma; players just aren&&num;8217&semi;t able to comment any more on the levels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;131533" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-131533" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-131533" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;08133639&sol;AW36m3k-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-131533" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Super Smash Bros Melee&comma; Nintendo<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>For those unaware&comma; Miiverse was Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s attempt at making a kind of social media platform accessible first through the Wii U&comma; and then on the 3DS family of systems&period; There were individual message boards essentially for every game&comma; and some titles&comma; like <em>T<&sol;em><em>he Legend of Zelda<&sol;em>&comma; the series&comma; had their own unique sections&period; When you logged into your Wii U there was a Mii plaza&comma; that had some of the most popular games in it&comma; some that you may have owned and some not&comma; and it had Miis that were playing the games and some of their posts from Miiverse were viewable from the Wii U home screen&period; Some games like <em>Splatoon<&sol;em> and <em>Super Smash Bros<&sol;em> even embraced Miiverse and had Miiverse posts viewable in the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;131534" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-131534" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-131534" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;08133743&sol;Animal-Crossing-Plaza-for-Wii-U-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-131534" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Animal Crossing Plaza let you make comments on your favourite Animal Crossing characters&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>One of the biggest things that helped give Miiverse it&&num;8217&semi;s own little identity were the great drawings that players would make on their Wii U or 3DS systems&period; Some players would spend hours and hours working on their art&comma; and it showed&period; Other players could comment or like posts&comma; like Facebook&comma; so it was always encouraging to spend some time on a drawing and post it to get some feedback and see what people thought about it&period; It was probably an unintended reaction from the creation of Miiverse&comma; but it really helped grow the Nintendo community during the rough Wii U years&period; Sadly&comma; many of these drawings are lost with the exception of those that were shared and posted elsewhere online&period; It is nice to see though that Nintendo has included a drawing option in <em>Splatoon 2<&sol;em>&comma; so <em>Splatoon<&sol;em> players can still make art and post in that game on the Switch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Miiverse was a unique take by Nintendo on social media platforms&period; In some ways it succeeded and in some ways it failed&comma; however it was almost always entertaining and plenty of time could be spent scouring Miiverse posts for some real gems&period; Did you use Miiverse&comma; do you miss it or hope Nintendo brings a new version back someday&quest; Let us know in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mynintendonews&period;com&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;08&sol;super-mario-maker-has-been-updated-on-wii-u-3ds&sol;">MyNintendoNews<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;