The Call Of Duty servers for the Nintendo Wii have officially shut down completely after a more than a decade of use. First discovered by Twitter user @racerize, COD fans took to social media yesterday showcasing screenshots of various pop-up windows that appeared when trying to access the online servers.

“The MW3 Online service for this software has been discontinued. Thank you for playing.” read one pop-up message.

Making room for that Switch version – Call of Duty Servers on the Wii have officially shut down#CallofDuty https://t.co/tnOvW3bd8b

— MVG (@ModernVintageG) August 2, 2023

The Nintendo Wii saw its first Call Of Duty game in 2009, a port of the original Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare followed by World At War, Black Ops, Black Ops 2, and finally Modern Warfare 3.

Activision had maintained its Nintendo Call Of Duty servers and thus kept its active player base alive despite Nintendo ending its own servers in 2014. The servers for Call Of Duty games on the Nintendo DS were also active and unfortunately, those servers have been confirmed to be shut down by fans.

R.I.P CoD on Nintendo DS as well. pic.twitter.com/b72x8gchH7

— Palutena ♀️♑️ (@Sailorpalutena) August 2, 2023

It’s the end of an era. That said, due to Microsoft’s ongoing acquisition of Activision Blizzard, COD fans will likely see the return of the franchise to modern Nintendo consoles and its unannounced successor.

Update 8/03/2023:

Mxdwn Games has since received a statement from Activision regarding the situation. It appears that the video game publisher had no involvement in the Call of Duty Wii and DS servers shutting down, instead pointing to Nintendo’s Wi-Fi Connection service.

“The Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service, which provides certain online functionality for many Wii, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo DSi software titles, was discontinued.” the statement read.

For more information on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service, head over to the official support page.