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Many of us were speculating why the Shop Channel was down on Oct. 20, and this might be our answer.

On September 1st, 2009, Nintendo changed the price of the Internet Channel from 500 Wii Points to 0 Wii Points. Customers who had previously used 500 Wii Points to download the Internet Channel to their Wii console, will now offered the opportunity to download for 0 Wii Points, one NES game of their choice (valued at 500 Wii Points) from the Virtual Console catalog.

After updating your Wii Shop Channel, you can access this offer by pressing the “One Free Title” button which can be found on the top screen of the Wii Shop Channel.

Please note that this offer will expire at 11:59pm PST on 12/31/2009. This offer cannot be exchanged for monetary value, transferred to another person, and if the Internet Channel was gifted to another person, it is only available to the recipient of the gift.

About Updating Your Wii Console:
Because unauthorized modifications to save data or program files may impair game play or the Wii console, updating will also check for and automatically remove such save data or program files.

**Please note:
If you’ve updated your Wii console after 10/20/2009, you may not need to update again.

Thank you for updating your Wii console!

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