Nintendo Might Permanently Shut Down Splatoon Wii U Servers
Splatoon and Mario Kart 8's Wii U servers abruptly went offline back in March of this year due to a security breach. Since Nintendo has been winding down support for its last-gen console, it may have been assumed the servers for those games might remain offline forever, but thankfully, that will not be the case. However, if they encounter this issue again, Nintendo has warned the servers might be shut down for good.
The servers will be back online by tomorrow (August 3, 2023). In an update from Nintendo, it confirmed the servers for both games were swiftly taken offline due to a vulnerability issue when playing online. Either it was so serious that it has taken five months to fix, or Nintendo has had what it considers to be more pressing matters to tend to since then. Considering that five-month period has included the launch of Tears of the Kingdom and a Super Mario Wonder announcement, I'm assuming the latter.
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If you do still play Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, you will need to download updates for each game from August 3 should you want to return to playing either of them online. It's the note after that update clarification that should worry anyone who plans on returning to those games this week, though.
"If further issues occur which make it difficult to continue supporting online play, we may have to discontinue the online play service for the Wii U games Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 at short notice," Nintendo's update reads. Further evidence that the five-month wait was likely due to Nintendo feeling as if fixing these servers was an annoyance it could do without. Should this happen again, the servers for both Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 will abruptly go offline again,
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