Ninteno WiFi Connection Service being shut down on May 20th, 2014

._. but how are we supposed to battle over the net on pogey gaems then?

Edit: Do you think we could mitigate the loss of pokemon games with xlink kai? Xlink kai basically makes adhoc games function like wfc games.

Xlink Kai doesn't work for DS to my knowledge, though.

This sounds like they're losing too much money and are trying to reduce costs. They don't care about the Wii or DS anymore because they're trying to move Wii U/3DS's, so they're trying to remove the reason to use a Wii / DS.

Problem is that the Wii U and 3DS flat out emulate the Wii/DS games, so even people who bought the newer consoles with backwards compatibility in mind are getting screwed.