Nintendo has provided details on an upcoming spot of maintenance set to take place over the next couple of days. The maintenance shouldn't impact your gaming time too much, but could interfere with some online services.
Two sessions are planned this week, relating to cloud saves and the transferring of save/user data. Nintendo warns that "during the maintenance window, network services may be unavailable." We have all the times you need below:
Nintendo Switch Online - Save Data Cloud
US: 29th June, 6pm PT - 8pm PT / 29th June 9pm ET - 11pm ET
UK: 30th June, 2am - 4am
Europe: 30th June, 3am CEST - 5am CEST
Switch - Transfer Your User Data / Transfer Your Save Data
US: 29th June, 9:30pm PT - 10:30pm PT / 30th June, 12:30am ET - 1:30am ET
UK: 30th June, 5:30am - 6:30am
Europe: 30th June, 6:30am CEST - 7:30am CEST
It's worth pointing out that planned maintenance doesn't necessarily mean that any major Switch firmware updates are on the way, so don't expect to see lots of exciting changes once it's all wrapped up. Still, if you notice any hiccups with Switch online services during these times, at least you now know what's causing them.
The latest Switch firmware update arrived earlier this month: Ver. 10.0.4 (Released June 4, 2020).
[source nintendo.co.jp, via nintendoeverything.com]
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Sometimes maintenance is just maintenance, but it does make me wonder if they're preparing anything for Animal Crossing in particular.
2am? But that's the best hour.
Animal Crossing?
Y'all need to start uploading Australian times, I'm tired of having to rely on shady no-name sites for that.
@status-204
It's the least they can do with their garbage online service. Plus, they don't provide any other way to backup save files.
I smell animal crossing save fixes of some kind
Min-Min is out today right?
How did you write an entire article about system downtime the day the new SSBU character released w/o mentioning the release of the new SSBU character @ryancraddock I mean you wrote the original article.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/06/min_min_revealed_as_super_smash_bros_ultimates_next_fighter
Or as my son puts it "They don't want another Joker".
Animal Crossing save option?
@AlexOlney The best hour…. to backup… your save data?
@rjejr this is the dumbest thing I've ever read
Maybe it’ll eradicate an issue I have which they provided me with a total non-answer to.
There are certain titles that won’t transfer from the system memory to the sd card. The error codes and Nintendo’s nonsense, copy and paste customer service answers, will conclude its your memory card, even though you can transfer other titles without a hitch time after time.
...This is why I went ahead and bought NSO. Not for the online play, but for a Cloud backup to go along with a physical one in case one of their updates breaks something.
@Crockin That' b/c you've only been here for 10 months, boy are you in for a shock. 😂
@rjejr they wrote both articles, what are you bitching about?
@rjejr with this s/n yes. Thanks for playing
To clarify I'm referring to your comment, not the article 😉
@rjejr The UK version of the trailer shows a release date of June 30th so it's a case of character release being around 6pm pacific (June 29th)/9pm eastern (June 29th)/2pm UK (June 30th), etc.
What a horrible night to have a maintenance.
@Grumblevolcano "6pm pacific (June 29th)/9pm eastern (June 29th)"
Which is exactly when the maintenance is scheduled for.
US: 29th June, 6pm PT - 8pm PT / 29th June 9pm ET - 11pm ET
@Crockin Yeah I know, no other thought even entered my mind. If you were referring to the article why reply to me?
@Bl4ckb100d Pretty much everything.
What @rjejr said. The timing is pretty damn near terrible.
Waiting 24 more hours for Min Min is going to be hella fun.
@AlexSora89 I think it's supposed to be 10 more hours, not 24, but who the heck know's what's going on in Italy.
BTW, looks like I'm on the wrong side of the internet as usual, but I guess we should be used to that by now.
Funny you mention. I literally started Skyrim last night and noticed the multiple auto-saves. I’m just overwriting the “main” save and deleting the rest so I don’t rack up saves for no reason. @status-204
@Crockin @RupeeClock @crashcontrol @Friendly, and anyone else who has commented, or will comment about this being ACNH's cloud save situation.
That's what I've been thinking for the maintenance as well, since it's been on the Network Status page.
all this for animal crossing
Probably nothing to do with this, but I really want Nintendo to release new consoles for NSO for the 2 year anniversary like they release SNES games for the 1 year anniversary.
I would love to have N64 games on NSO, but GameBoy Color and GameBoy Advance are fine.
And I'm also excited to see if there will be any (and when) leaks like the SNES NSO leaks 1 year ago.
@NEStalgia Well done! I wish I would have thought of that!
@RupeeClock the only thing we know Animal Crossing New Horizons will receive is the first summer update that add the Diving mecanic to the game.
@TheAwesomeBowser only a complete idiot would use a "shady no name site" for time zone estimations, as long as you know your time zone you can figure it out on google... Let say your in Canberra act, Australia just an example.
1am Eastern Time in the us would be 3pm in Australia, that's a 14 hour time differential, and incase you use 24 hour that's 0100 US to 1500 Australia.
As of writing this funny enough it's 1am EST so subtract this posts age to see when it was made vs your time and simple maths you have your answer.
I'm assuming you're capable of this
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