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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.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Nintendo Switch Online Outage Chart 02/20/2026 17:00

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Online Play (64%)

    Online Play (64%)

  2. Sign in (27%)

    Sign in (27%)

  3. Matchmaking (9%)

    Matchmaking (9%)

Live Outage Map

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
SpainAlbacete Online Play
United KingdomManchester Online Play
United KingdomWitney Sign in
United KingdomPreston Online Play
ParaguayAsunción Online Play
United StatesPhiladelphia Sign in
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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Jibmata Alex (@Jibmata) reported

    @Silvesary Even then those new ones will eventually drift because Nintendo still hasn’t addressed the actual problem in the design

  • severedaffect Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy (@severedaffect) reported

    @GoblinMoxxi uhg, the worst. I've been out of gaming for a bit. I assume Nintendo still hasn't offered a fix?

  • LupusCairo LupusCairo (@LupusCairo) reported

    @YasonHours @darroyo04 @NintendoUK A year isn't nearly enough to fix all the issues this has. And if the first trailer already has massive performance issues that's a biiiiiiiig red flag. Calling me an idiot when you know so little about game development is really embarrassing. Go home, kid.

  • pix_ssb Lööp|pix (Smash and Pokemon) (@pix_ssb) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Nintendo Customer Support is no help either. Because this is a serious issue that cannot wait. Put out a 12.0.4 update before more people get the broken version of 12.0.3 like I have, and there is NO WAY to fix it.

  • pix_ssb Lööp|pix (Smash and Pokemon) (@pix_ssb) reported

    @NintendoAmerica No point in a sale when you can't even download anything with the 12.0.3 update STILL causing issues

  • PrismaticSeal PrismaticSeal (@PrismaticSeal) reported

    @Twitch Nintendo stops banning ost posts on youtube, Crash comes to smash and Twitch finally decides to enforce their TOS equally to attractive girls and everyone else.

  • CrackavelliBoss Crackavelli TheDogeBoss (@CrackavelliBoss) reported

    @BillyM2k I'm a GB original. Still got it boxed up somewhere with my NES, SNES and Cube. And the first 100 issues of Nintendo Power

  • spiral_gamer Spiral the Gamer (@spiral_gamer) reported

    @KCB_Bryan Apparently Nintendo doesn't have a problem having a company that spent decades protecting abusers and rapists working on their Mario game.

  • WalterTheChef Walter Shite (@WalterTheChef) reported

    @ryanmanfo @VaIkyraetwt @NintendoAmerica the hell is your problem?

  • SkitzToonz SkitzToonz (@SkitzToonz) reported

    @JoeCool_WiiU Well In that case Nintendo should probably fix that sense when you block someone you pretty much are saying you don't wanna be matched up with them at all, but sadly we can only hope from here.

  • pakktrunx Andrea Carannante (@pakktrunx) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Fix the damn firmware

  • BrokenSSB Knation | BroKenSSBU (@BrokenSSB) reported

    At what point does nintendo look at Luigi and realize that, its just not ok. Its been almost 3 years that this game has been out but not a single time has nintendo made any substantial change to fix the bullshittery that is Luigi. Goo Goo Gaa Gaa character... fix ur **** nintendo

  • AnthonyTomat Anthony Tomat (@AnthonyTomat) reported

    @NintendoAmerica @MarioRabbids Or perhaps Junior is causing trouble again.

  • Jonathan_M_NLA cybergummy (@Jonathan_M_NLA) reported

    @NintendoAmerica My switch has problems downloading games. Is there going to be a fix soon?

  • Petert930 Peter Tran (@Petert930) reported

    @NintendoAmerica @MarioRabbids Help everyone, i have been through a lot of government torture.  They get away with crimes towards humanity. They shoot radio waves at me to make me feel discomfort and pain.  I have trouble breathing, anxiety and feel burn.  My ears go hay wire with sound torture with static.

  • GothGirlExpert NoBrainer (@GothGirlExpert) reported

    @FortniteStatus For anyone curious its not a Fortnite problem necessarily, Nintendo released a system update that ****** with the eshop and made downloading and updating games almost impossible. Some peoples console work and some dont

  • RMH_C Becky C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@RMH_C) reported

    @NintendoUK Please sort out the issue with system 12.0.3. I've just had to restart my switch 3 times just do redeem a download code for Monster Hunter!

  • TheTurkeyKing15 ZTtheTurkeyKing (@TheTurkeyKing15) reported

    Hey @Nintendo fix ur damn servers

  • jeremywball jeremy (@jeremywball) reported

    It’ll either be: Third party character fans have been dying for (Sorra, Crash, etc.) Or Another rep from a series with a smaller fan base as Nintendo continues to neglect Zelda, one of its largest series Maybe new Gen Pokémon ?

  • raidpirate raidpirate (@raidpirate) reported

    Trying to update games on the Switch and I keep getting an error, apparently from the last update of the Switch itself. So dumb. Not the only one apparently. @NintendoAmerica, please get this fixed!

  • KaiserDandy Austin (KaiserDandy) (@KaiserDandy) reported

    @SymphonysBliss That's Gamefreaks problem and we still don't know how the game will run on the new hardware. But that aside. Nintendo doesn't go out of their way to release games 4-5 years after their announcements unless something comes up. Nintendo has games coming this year into next. 100%

  • avalon_dunne Avalon Dunne💘 (@avalon_dunne) reported

    @NintendoUK Fix fortnite

  • Z17Johnny JohnnyRainbowZ17 (@Z17Johnny) reported

    @JRadskate412 @MldGhost @kidsmoove Nah I don't have a problem with Playstation but Horizon is a pretty boring game. The only time a game selling so many copies is Nintendo because their games never drop in price

  • pix_ssb Lööp|pix (Smash and Pokemon) (@pix_ssb) reported

    @NintendoAmerica It takes, 10 power offs and ons And 3 resets, to get anything downloading Y'all need to get a 12.0.4 update out ASAP, to fix this obvious bug

  • Reeltimegaming1 Reeltimegaming (@Reeltimegaming1) reported

    @Chomper_NG He’s off getting his knee caps broken by Nintendo because they don’t want him in smash

  • fuzzybinary Jeff Ward (@fuzzybinary) reported

    Erm... Anyone else having trouble downloading things from @NintendoAmerica at the moment? I can't get updates or the new game I just purchased....

  • goronvigilance cait @ E3 !! (@goronvigilance) reported

    // ubisoft ubisoft and nintendo having a good relationship means Rayman has more of a chance of being in smash than crash #UbisoftForward

  • Obama2097287080 Obama2.0 (@Obama2097287080) reported

    @NintendoAmerica Hey can u fix this error bug it won't ket anyone update or download games due to the new system update

  • aleeelol alee 👾 (@aleeelol) reported

    when tf is nintendo going to fix the fornite update error ???? new map and i can’t even enjoy it ?!

  • alexmeerkat87 Alex (@alexmeerkat87) reported

    @NintendoUK having 2123-1502 for a couple of days. Turns out it's widespread. The fixes on your website not working. Are you looking into this? System useless at the moment.