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Nintendo Switch Online Service lets the console owners enjoy online multiplayer gaming as well as a dedicated smartphone app that connects to the Nintendo Switch system and helps connect with friends for co-op and competitive games online.

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Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Nintendo Switch Online reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Nintendo Switch Online users through our website.

  • 62% Online Play (62%)
  • 23% Sign in (23%)
  • 8% Matchmaking (8%)
  • 8% Glitches (8%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Nintendo Switch Online outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Melbourne Online Play 18 days ago
Vallejo Glitches 21 days ago
Mobile Online Play 27 days ago
Milan Online Play 1 month ago
Albacete Online Play 2 months ago
Manchester Online Play 2 months ago
Full Outage Map

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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Faliznumber
    Frame Data (@Faliznumber) reported

    @TheNCSmaster The thing is Microsoft simply buys existing properties. I can never see Crash or Banjo as Xbox characters. Sony, Nintendo and Sega all had tons of in house devs making their games but Microsoft just buys out studios to get exclusives which is so lame

  • harrylinlisacco
    ハリー・リン / Harry Lin🐏🌸⚔🎪🥚🎋🎐🎠🐬🌱 (@harrylinlisacco) reported

    @ScruffTail @nintendolife You failed to see my point that, before you calling Nintendo "awful" or "anti-consumer", the things they do are totally legal and rational objectively. You have been looking at this issue with bias and keep stressing how bad it is for the consumers.

  • MaccaMcLeod88
    Matthew McLeod (@MaccaMcLeod88) reported

    @nintendolife There have been copyright strikes because of music long before people made a big deal out of Nintendo doing it. So thanks for perpetuating the scapegoating I guess. There are worse problems.

  • WigglesJust
    JustWiggles (@WigglesJust) reported

    @DynamoSuperX Seeing so many people get the law confused with morale issues here. They are not the same in the slightest. Nintendo are well within their right, whether you believe that should be the case is a totally different arguement.

  • cbrzeszczot
    asie (@cbrzeszczot) reported

    @MakotoShirogan2 @LuigiBlood The problem is really that it only existed at two Nintendo-partnered universities (to the best of my knowledge), of which one didn't even utilize Mario Factory. Finding any unit in the wild would be nothing short of a miracle, not unlike the "Nintendo PlayStation".

  • patricknotirl
    patrick (@patricknotirl) reported

    nintendo wii broken

  • GEBurgtorf
    G.E. Burgtorf (@GEBurgtorf) reported

    @JoCat105 I feel the same way. I mean it is understandable to the current world view in business of "if it ain't broke and makes money, don't fix it." But of all companies I like to see shake up the norm, it be Nintendo doing a major over haul on games like Pokemon.

  • ElPerrowsky
    El Perrowsky (@ElPerrowsky) reported

    @PSLifeStyle @AndreaPichinini At least we can all agree that nintendo has the worst service

  • shaps_b
    Shapna Begum Compton (@shaps_b) reported

    Every so often the child shows signs of ‘Princess-ism’ e.g ‘the bed is messy, can someone fix it please’ and ‘can’t find the Nintendo Switch’ when it has been moved 2cm from where it normally is.

  • franckhertz
    Franckhertz (@franckhertz) reported

    @benigma2017 @BrettRedacted You’re… tweeting from an iPhone. Outsourcing to China is a big problem that virtually all companies do. Sony/Nintendo products are made in China. Apple is worse than some, better than many: they actually publish a supplier transparency report that most big companies don’t.

  • ricmoney123
    BABYSTACKS (@ricmoney123) reported

    @FortniteStatus the witching wing pack is not showing up in Nintendo switch item shop can you fix this because I was to buy it

  • twinhalfempty
    Jamie Noble (@twinhalfempty) reported

    @PSLifeStyle YEAH. Nintendo’s got the best online service! Wait….just wanna say, I like Nintendo’s strategy (I bought a lot of the VC titles so to not have to buy them individually again is nice) and don’t really use online so I don’t see the negatives. There’s so many negatives

  • Sadagus_Fate
    Fate (@Sadagus_Fate) reported

    @WaitsBrett @Snappy_SSB @Alpharad What average sane person saves in lorelei room in gen 1 with a primape who's only useable move is rage and has no pp restoring items, or usable hms or tms cause nintendo sure as hell thinks that's a genuine issue to create unique ai, so by comparison this is a major flaw to them

  • ArvuAndBoxCrew
    Arvu And the Box Crew (@ArvuAndBoxCrew) reported

    @shawceresita @DynamoSuperX There's just a few problems with that. 1) covers and remixes fall under fair use in many places. 2) Nintendo doesn't own the rights to Undertale or its music. If what you say was actually accurate, the thousands of streamers and let's players around the net would be gone.

  • BaryonSenjuSage
    SenjutsuSage (@BaryonSenjuSage) reported

    @BillFosterNoTec @ericlettuce @ARedCanadian And you continue to prove the issue you have is that Sony is no longer the biggest dog in the house. When Sony entered gaming, Sega and Nintendo were the bugs. Sony was the electronics, movie and music giant. No revisionist history bs will be allowed in this convo. Sorry.

  • WigglesJust
    JustWiggles (@WigglesJust) reported

    @Ardhamon92 @shawceresita @MorsGames How is calling someone a bootlicker when all their saying is that Nintendo and any other company are well within their right to strike accounts that use their copyright? The fact is it is the law, now if you want to argue the morale issue go for it but this ain't the place.

  • none_ofbusiness
    None (@none_ofbusiness) reported

    @Dededaio I feel like HAL as a company needs a proper American division That could alleviate so much of the Japanese-exclusive stuff like the Kirby Cafe, their Twitter posts, it could fix the ****** Nintendo translations, etc etc

  • ScruffTail
    Scruffy (@ScruffTail) reported

    @harrylinlisacco @nintendolife Next you'll start condemning people who emulate older games because they can't afford to spend £100+ on Gamecube hardware and games. Which is ONLY a problem because Nintendo refuses to rerelease games in an accessible manner. It's explicitly anti-consumer

  • SacLinxYT
    • Sac Linx • (@SacLinxYT) reported

    @NintendoAmerica @FortniteGame Lately I have noticed that every time I play fortnite on my nintendo switch after a while it appears "the game has crashed due to an error"

  • Xyless
    UR | Xyless (@Xyless) reported

    @Ice_Greninja_ Yeah, it’s ridiculous that there’s no quality wired pro controller option and changing the settings to be “wired” doesn’t actually fix the issue. Nintendo would make a decent profit if they sold, like, a PRO pro controller that wasn’t wireless at all (@thetruebowser hook us up)

  • Sapphic_leaf
    ky 🌿 (@Sapphic_leaf) reported

    when will nintendo make another style savvy game i think that could fix me

  • aeonofdiscord
    hyperobject-oriented ontology (@aeonofdiscord) reported

    @zarawesome i think that's a problem for most third-party devs, but game freak has an unusually close relationship with nintendo and i'd be surprised if they couldn't get hold of somebody to explain some of the tricks if they really wanted

  • L4Cake
    Left4Cake (@L4Cake) reported

    @Dean2__ @DynamoSuperX So why doesn't Nintendo try to sell these songs? That would fix the problem for at least a majority of people.

  • TerraTerraCotta
    🎃Pumpkineer Extraordinaire🎃@ Support Artists (@TerraTerraCotta) reported

    Dear Nintendo: If you don’t release the soundtracks of the games whose music uploads you DMCA on YouTube. We are just going to pirate instead. You made the pirating problem worse, as always.

  • NintendoShame
    Nintendo Shame (@NintendoShame) reported

    It's been 193 days since the last game was added to the Nintendo Switch Online service

  • Richard81257188
    Kooper Trooper (@Richard81257188) reported

    @PlanoNameHokeB So... Valid criticism isn't allowed because it's a common criticism of the development team at Nintendo and Intelligent Systems? So like.. if there's a genuine issue that lots of people bring up... I should ignore it because it's multiple people?

  • Galarawr
    Galara (@Galarawr) reported

    @ActualAero Could anyone help: I have Legends as a digital copy on an SD card. If I buy an OLED switch and move the SD card over and login to my nintendo account, will I have to make a new game save file? or will I keep my progress?

  • MightyRavino
    MightyRavino (@MightyRavino) reported

    @SMITEGame How about looking into some nintendo switch issues as well? Can't play conquest without dc. Can't even check everyone's items. I'm tired of getting deserter penalties because your **** servers disconnect me.

  • 1ofyourmeteors
    𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕁𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕗 (@1ofyourmeteors) reported

    @zarawesome I remember when all the big gaming companies were struggling to migrate to HD 3D, and Nintendo seemed to be doing just fine. Of course it really was just Nintendo pushing it off for a gen, and they had all the same problems. Oops.

  • BroTheEh
    Bro (@BroTheEh) reported

    @TheKrustyKoopa Ultimate: very good the online for most of Nintendo’s games: a pathetic excuse for an online service that they make us pay for