Helm Games :: Nintendo Shuts Down Online Community Indefinately

Helm Games :: Nintendo Shuts Down Online Community IndefinatelyNintendo Shuts Down Online Community Indefinately
Submitted by: Nick Rathman at 09/17/07

With over four years of being open, hundreds of thousands of members and literally millions of posts, Nintendo has made the sudden, unexpected move to permanently shut down their mega popular discussion forums. Heres what Nintendo themselves have to say about it:

Nintendo is working on a major overhaul to Nintendo.com to support the continued success of Nintendo DS and Wii. As we prepare for this huge site update, Nintendo must unfortunately close the Nintendo NSider Forums message boards indefinitely beginning Sept. 17, 2007

For more than four years, these NSider Forums have fostered engaging, robust debates, a strong community and friendships. While their future remains uncertain, in the interim we invite our fans to build on the spirit of community by starting their own Nintendo discussion sites. Remember also that the unique features available with Nintendo DS and Wii give Nintendo the opportunity to communicate directly with fans, while also enabling fans and friends around the world to communicate with each other.

Nintendo has the greatest fans in the world, and it is because of their support and passion that Nintendo DS and Wii have become so hugely successful around the world. We hope that the faithful Nintendo community members will look forward to the future games and website updates that will enhance Nintendo's global community of Wii and Nintendo DS owners.

This is particularly interesting for us here at Helm Games since we actually started off on the Nintendo NSider forums, 2 years ago (our community at least). Perhaps with the closing of their community, they will open a new one for DS and Wii owners. The NSider forums can still be accessed however, though they are now in read only format, so you can currently only read older stuff. On September 24th the forums will be removed from public view.

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ok if we dont get like 1000 new members withthin this week im gonna be pissed

eclipsor - 09/18/07 06:26:55

Im pissed!! Those forums were where I went for all my Nintendo onlt ranting/discussion. I made a lot of friendships there. Without them, I would never of helped start the DS moding site, which is now helmgmes. I am very mad.

Dallin - 09/19/07 12:54:57

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