Miiverse
Nintendo built a social network where drawings and handwritten jokes lived inside games themselves, then erased the public communities when the Wii U era ended.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released Nintendo social network integrated with Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and selected web browsers.
Players posted drawings, screenshots and short messages to game-specific communities that could appear directly inside supported titles.
Existence timeline
The social network arrives with Wii U in North America.
Nintendo expands communities beyond the original console.
Drawings and comments appear across supported games.
Nintendo gives users a final operating date.
Communities and in-game post feeds go offline.
A community project publishes a large recovered public dataset.
Why it ended
Nintendo closed Miiverse globally on 7 November 2017 as it shifted from Wii U and 3DS toward Nintendo Switch.
Last confirmed trace
Official notices, the Archiverse community archive and captured in-game posts preserve millions of public messages and drawings.
What it left behind
Its hand-drawn culture and deep game integration remain unlike the more conventional account systems that replaced it.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.