Another app on the Wii U is shutting down, BBC’s iPlayer app will no longer function on Wii U as of today, January 16. Nintendo confirmed the news in a blog post, citing “an end in the license agreement between the BBC and Nintendo.”
The App which only worked in the UK due to a rights agreement was pulled from the Nintendo eShop on August 31, 2016. Wii U users who had the app install already were able to use the app up until now.
Nintendo has given no word as to why the agreement was not renewed or if it will be replaced on the upcoming Switch.
BBC iPlayer isn’t the first app to be canned from the Wii U. Wii Street U, the Wii U’s custom Google Maps app, shut down last year. That came after video streaming app TVii ceased working in 2015. TVii was cancelled in Europe before it even launched.
Wii U players in the UK, did you use the app at all? From the looks of things, it seems that the App was more likely not renewed due to usage than anything else as there has been no community uproar so far.
