 On March 26, 2018, the ability to purchase Wii Points was permanently removed following a temporary maintenance notice, preventing users from purchasing WiiWare or Virtual Console games unless they had enough Wii Points in their account balance already.Already purchased software could still be downloaded, and any existing Wii Point credit were redeemable until January 30, 2019.The Virtual Console allowed users to download classic games from past video game consoles.