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On March 4, 2022, a rumor was circulated on social media that the Nintendo Wii consoles were set to self-destruct in 2023: But Nintendo did not announce this. The rumor started with a humorous piece of fiction published on the website Hard-drive.net on March 4. Here's an excerpt from that fictional article: Hard-drive.net is not a genuine news website. While we couldn't find a disclaimer on Hard-drive.net explicitly labeling its content as satire, the website's tongue-in-cheek about page hints at the website's humorous nature: Furthermore, the site was created by the same people who made thehardtimes.net, a punk news website that publishes satirical content. The disclaimer on TheHardtimes.net reads: This bit of satirical news appears to be poking fun at Nintendo for shutting down services for old consoles. In 2019, for example, the company shut down the Wii eShop, preventing Wii players from buying digital games for their old consoles. In February 2022, a few weeks before this satirical article went viral, Nintendo announced that it was shutting down the eShops for the Wii U and the Nintendo DS. While Nintendo users will truly lose the ability to purchase digital games on these consoles, these devices are not set to self-destruct.
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