Emergency Maintenance Scheduled for Nintendo Online Services on 28th January

"Whatever the reasons, we're sure that we can survive a few hours without eShop access."

I CAN'T! OH GOD, NO! NO! NOOOOOO!!!

This is a kind of dumb a article. It thought it was going to be about something very important, but it's not. But it is Nintendo Life's job to bring any news, so it makes sense I guess.

@HawkeyeWii
It might save them from getting a thousand "ESHOP IS DOWN! HACKING! PIRATES! I'LL DIE!" messages when it does though.

probably just need to sweep under the servers, probably dirty down there. Are maybe they are upgrading them.

If it was a REAL emergency they would've done it immediately. But I swear, if I go to the shop on Tuesday and my account balance is zero, heads will roll.

EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE!

@King_Boo If they were upgrading, Wii and DS wouldn't be on there.

Hmm, I wonder what it will be if anything important at all.

Very considerate of Nintendo to give everyone a heads up before taking down the online services for maintenance. It's the little things like that that makes a company great.

And this is why I also have a Vita. XD

Good to know. Since I have both Black/Black 2, I am curious as to what this maintenance will entail.

A couple of hours in Europe. But basically an entire day for 18 rated titles in the Wii U eShop. Another indication of why Nintendo needs to sort this out.

Maybe we'll finally get all of the Dream World areas made available for Pokémon Black/White 2.

Good. Make these cables turtle-proof.

Emergency for what? Anxious to see what happens.

Since Pokemon BWB2W2 are on the list, I'm kinda curious about what all this is about.

If they're taking down sites on both sides I have to think there are some general network changes, otherwise I cannot see why everything would be going down at once.

educated guesstimate: they are using some third-part software for the online services that contains vulnerabilities but Nintendo hasnt been compromised yet.

meh. At least it's not this site. Nor petit computer (I hope). I can wait.

Didn't the same thing happen a few months back, shouldn't be nothing too major but it would be nice to get those ID's

might be a cover up for miiverse for 3ds. (please?)

maybe everyting is being put on the nintendo network, or there mushing all the shops together, like if you put £10 on your 3ds eshop it will be avalible to use on your wii U eshop, or miiverse might be put on the 3DS, but the whole emergancy thing makes me thing its just a regular clean out of the servers

Emergency? They've done server maintenance before with this amount of notice, why are they calling it "emergency" server maintenance? Definitely catches my interest, though I doubt they'll tell us what the emergency is...

The emergency is probably just some security vulnerability that they need to fix, nothing more.

@pariah164 What's that? Is that the memory of PSN getting hacked saying hi to you? :3

Maybe they will update the prices? I DUNNO. But that will be a boring day/days. UHHH! (jk)

@pariah164 You have a Vita just to avoid one specific downtime?

I know it's a long shot, but personally I'd be pleased if the eShop's layout was improved. But I won't hold my breath, of course. I am curious about how the maintenance will be, though.

@123akis I would love an account system, yeah. Good call.

It's always alarming when they use the word ''emergency'' (did someone hack in the service?!) but I guess it just means that it's not a routine operation.
Or this: @Swiket The Pikmin escaped.

@pariah164 Ah, you must be of the five people around here that has one.

If it was a security vulnerability I should hardly think would take everything down at once and in some days time hence. Rather I would think they'd do a gradual roll-out ASAP and simply state there may be performance issues. But the word "emergency" does have that ring about it, eh?

@haiLtreTtenDo, impossible!

IT'S AN EMERGENCY!

you don't suppose that it's an excuse to release something special, do you?

Maybe this will speed up 3DS eShop SMH -_-

Please Be NNID and Miiverse for 3ds Please XD

Isnt it obvious? They decided to put the classis Google trick: "Do a barrel roll" into the eShops.
On a realistic note, maybe pokemon is getting an event? This is obviously no emergency, or it would be right now (or even tomorrow).
My best guess is that Nintendo is dumb and just realized that 5 year olds can access mature videos. :3

I don't know if I should rush and buy everything I have been postergating from the Wii Shop Channel in case they are removing titles, or if I should wait and buy after the maintenance just in case this emergency implies my credit card info or Wii is at risk.

So, the question of the day - why is this an "emergency"?

@Slapshot
Maybe every 3DS connected to the internet will explode if they don't do this. o_O

The systems not connected to the internet are safe though.

@Shugo Maybe when pigs fly. It would be nice to tie all purchases to their system and not the consoles.

@pariah164 And your post is invalid on this article!

Wii-U/Wii modes and Wii Shop Channel/eShop getting nicely merged together the way they are with 3DS/DSi/DS software?

Maybe perhaps the enhancements announced in the Nintendo Direct are coming sooner than expected?

If security had been compromised, they would have taken down the entire kit-and-kaboodle without warning, like Sony did with PSN network when the hackers brought it down for over a month.

Damn, I checked the times again and it looks like I'll have to start my download of Ninja Gaiden at 1am Tuesday...ah well at least I have the day off and I'll be able to see if anything changed.

Although I'm sure some suggestions of a shop merger are possible I wonder if there will also be a fix for this silly 23:00 18-rated game watershed nonsense?

@Sean_Aaron You could lie about your age.

@Sean_Aaron
My condolences. I downloaded it last weekend and I'm enjoying it. It's kind of great to play again after all these years a game wich keeps beating you for legitimate reasons.

@dragon_rider
Age has got nothing to do with it. 18 rated games are only available for download after 11pmGMT in Europe. These few hours down effectively mean that those games are unavailable for a couple of days.

Usually you can still sign-in and play online etc when there doing maintenance, this makes me think there are changes coming or testing there security.

hope it' s the nintendo network that' s probably coming out which would be nice or maybe they are going to use all dsiware games and turn them into 3dsware games that would be cool

the next couple days are certainly going to be... interesting

I'm hoping for something Pokemon related but this is probably just some routine dusting and tightening of the locks so to speak.

Hide your information this is a scam!
they need a few hours to gather your info, but ah well what can you do they'll just give you free VC games later, so all is better.

Well I have five games I'm enjoying offline on my home systems so those downtime maintenance doesn't affect. At least whenever I'm bored I could always go watch Netflix and YouTube until this mess is clear up.

I doubt it's BIG otherwise Japan would also have it... Unless its an import section in NA/EU eShops

Im glad for this article's warning of this. I experienced the pain of this yesterday...

i havent gone through this but im so waiting on mii verse for the nintendo 3ds hurry up nintendo my brain is about to explode