Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

@Fizza @Kermit1 @Grumblevolcano @MarioLover92 @Star-Point @Anti-Matter Okay things are getting weird now. The NES & SNES NSO apps just went into maintenance, what on Earth is Nintendo doing behind the scenes? 🤔

@TowaHerschel7 World takeover

@Kermit1 Now maintenance is scheduled to end at 7:00 PM PST. Wow, has the eShop ever been down this long during scheduled maintenance before? I think you might be onto something regarding a new storefront for the Switch eShop. What do you guys think? @Fizza @Grumblevolcano @MarioLover92 @Tasuki @Anti-Matter @Tyranexx @Kairu @WaterKirby1964 @StarPoint @SViper @PikaPhantom @Eel @WoomyNNYes @JaxonH @Ralizah @Joeynator3000

@TowaHerschel7 I honestly don't know. It's probably nothing like usual but I have hope.

PLUS, the NSO apps are also in maintenance.

I'm giddy with excitement

@TowaHerschel7
I wouldn't put much stock into it.

Maintenance is normal. Sometimes it takes longer if they find a bug they need to iron out or something.

If they were gonna add or change anything they probably would have done it in Sept before everyone's subscriptions were due.

But, that's just my two cents.

The 3DS eShop is undergoing maintenance too.

@Eel Interesting, hmm.

Nintendo Switch + "NEW" 3DS XL = "NEW" Switch X

@TowaHerschel7 I sort of doubt that we'll actually see any changes. But, this is some pretty heavy maintenance so I'm glad to be proven wrong.

@TowaHerschel7 With Nintendo's earnings report in a few hours, it feels like Nintendo's going to announce something at the end of the maintenance. 12+ hour eshop maintenance isn't normal.

My gut feeling says you only have an outage this long if something unexpected happened. Usually a significant change would be planned in such a way to reduce downtime. Significant downtime suggests something went wrong

Which may or may not be related to significant changes. I mean, things can go wrong as part of deploying changes. Although even if it is a significant change odds are the front end changes will roll out well after the outage. The outage is server side, there might not be anything visible to the end user

/Dev 2c

How much longer? I wanna download a demo.

@Kermit1 Another one and a half hours based on the new error message. 🤮

@TowaHerschel7 aw man, imma go watch Malcolm in the middle then.

I'm on!!!! Nothing has changed.

@TowaHerschel7 thank you for information. And who knows what will happen, but looks like nothing happen according Kermit1.

@TowaHerschel7 I don't think we will get anything new after that maintenance

I noticed the maintenance at 11pm eastern US. That was a long one, alright. Other than what's already been mentioned, bolstering security is another possibility.

Maybe the eshop can now hold more people?

Well after a year I was finally able to get an N64 controller for this.

Originally I wasn't sure if I wanted to pay money for one of the more awkward Nintendo controllers, but thinking about how those old games play, remembering trying to play Sin and Punishment with a GCN controller on Wii, and especially trying to play Star Fox 64 on this (even moreso in handheld mode, a painful experience) convinced me. Mario Party 1 and its control stick spinning also helps, since I'm not risking my 2nd pair of joycons on nostalgia for a game this dumb.

Speaking of which, I tried one game of Mario Party 1 on the Mario board, it was basically 20 turns of being screwed over, but then I won because I got two of the three bonus stars. And even ignoring that...yeah, maybe this first game didn't hold up.

After the latest quarterly earnings, I’m wondering if this was all in preparation for that new company Nintendo Systems they are launching next year. If they are focusing on using the company for the online services then perhaps they are currently doing backend work to make the transfer over to the new team easier and quicker.