The official Tumblr page of Nintendo’s Splatoon game announced on Tuesday that Nintendo will permanently shut down the SplatNet (Ikaring in Japan) service for its Splatoon Wii U game on September 30.
The sequel game Splatoon 2 also features a counterpart SplatNet 2 service, accessed via the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app.
Nintendo released the first Splatoon game for the Wii U in May 2015.
The game pits players in a fight for territory as two teams fight to cover their battlefield with their respective paint colors.