Classic Call Of Duty Servers Shut Down On Wii And DS

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Classic Call of Duty games are seeing a huge resurgence on Xbox thanks to the servers being fixed, with over 200,000 people playing across Black Ops and Modern Warfare in July. Granted, a big hacking problem ruined the experience for many on Black Ops 2, but that didn't stop fans from jumping back into the originals like no time had passed. But unfortunately, if you're hoping to do the same on your old Wii or DS, you'll find no such luck, as the servers have finally gone offline.

As reported by Stealth Optional, if you try to boot up any of the Call of Duty games on Wii right now, you'll get error code 20110 which reads, "Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service for this software has been discontinued." Despite the Wii and DS now being defunct, with the storefronts closing as Nintendo moved its focus solely to the Switch, World at War and Black Ops had fairly active communities for the better part of a decade. But those communities have to migrate if they want to keep playing.

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Call of Duty games on Nintendo platforms have never been consistent. Activision launched a version of Modern Warfare called "Reflex" with less content, but never its sequel. Weirdly, it did launch Modern Warfare 3 on Wii, skipping the fan-favourite middle child altogether. The DS was even more bizarre, as it couldn't run Call of Duty, which led Activision to develop completely unique versions of each game. Black Ops even had its own Zombies maps exclusive to the platform.

The last time Call of Duty was seen on a Nintendo console was back in 2013 with Ghosts on the Wii U. So far, Activision has skipped the Switch generation altogether, but that's set to change thanks to the Microsoft acquisition.