Nintendo often completes minor maintenance on its Network and eShop platforms, though is lining up a fairly major period of work that'll disrupt most aspects of the company's online services.
At the time of writing Nintendo is advising of intermittent access problems for Miiverse on the Wii U and 3DS, since 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm UK / midnight CET on Friday 26th September; this is due to continue over the weekend and early next week.
In terms of the scheduled maintenance this week, there are multiple periods of downtime ahead; details are below.
From Friday, September 26, 2014 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm UK / midnight (CET) to Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1am Pacific / 4am Eastern / 9am UK / 10am CET
Affected Services:
Wii U
Miiverse
Nintendo 3DS
Miiverse
From Sunday, September 28, 2014 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK / 8pm CET to Sunday, September 28, 2014 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm UK / midnight CET
Affected Services:
Wii U
Online Play, Rankings, etc. for Mario Kart 8
From Monday, September 29, 2014 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern / 9pm UK / 10pm CET to Monday, September 29, 2014 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am UK (30th) / 2am CET (30th)
Affected Services:
Wii U
Nintendo eShop
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo eShop
Wii
Wii Shopping Channel
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DSi Shop
From Monday, September 29, 2014 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm UK / midnight CET (30th) to Monday, September 29, 2014 3.05pm Pacific / 6:35pm Eastern / 11:35pm UK / 12:05am CET (30th)
Affected Services:
Wii U
All
Nintendo 3DS
All
From Monday, September 29, 2014 4:30pm Pacific / 7:30pm Eastern / 00:30am UK (30th) / 01:30am CET (30th) to Monday, September 29, 2014 4:35pm Pacific / 7:35pm Eastern / 12:35am UK (30th) / 1:30am CET (30th)
Affected Services:
Wii U
All
Nintendo 3DS
All
There's plenty happening, it seems, with the extensive Miiverse maintenance being particularly noticeable, while the Mario Kart 8 maintenance is also going to disrupt some online gaming sessions.
We'll see soon enough whether any interesting updates or changes come from this maintenance.
[source nintendo.com, via nintendo.co.jp]
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Wii Shop and Dsi shop involved. I'm scared. Are they taking off older titles, I wonder?
im ok with this go stability!
Tom certainly loves his pictures of Paper Mario!
@Porky No. Nintendo usually does maintenance on all the shops at once. This is nothing new
Just hoping for efficiency and less loading times.
Hyrule Warriors Online Confirmed!
Getting online play ready for Smash 3DS? Less loading times? Something new? (cross-buy pls but I doubt it)
A lot, it seems. Getting ready for that October update?
How will we find out if Metroid can crawl now?
@Wouwter look it up
Still banned from Miiverse despite 2 weeks supposedly passing
@WaLzgi Probably because there only is one set of servers. (There is no other reason to ever do that).
Let us all motorboat in the cleavage that is this new stability
@VolcanoFlamesNL what October update?
One can never have too much stability, go Nintendo
the stability levels STILL wont be hi enough!!
Want that October update! hopefully there will be a handful of themes to select from.
They're probably setting up more servers in case smash3ds sells a whole bunch of 3ds
@Undead_terror IKR? That update looks so good!
I tried downloading the Ganon DLC for Hytle Warriors last night and it kept giving me the down for maintinance page.
@XCWarrior Then there would be no point, in buying a new 3DS...Think about it?
@Mega719 — I'm still banned after two weeks also.
They're doing maintenance on the day HW releases which auto posts to Miiverse whenever you get a badge or trophy or whatever?
Nice timing.
I'm glad to see Nintendo taking Miiverse maintenance seriously. I really like to showcase my adventures in most of the games I play. They also serve as a good reminder of the great times I've had while playing.
@Dpullam I think there doing this because of Smash bros. for 3DS.
@kereke12 Really? How do you figure that?
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/08/interchangeable_dashboard_themes_are_coming_to_your_nintendo_3ds @gatorboi352 This update that allows 3DS owners to customize their menu screens?
@kereke12 i got back when i checked back on my 3DS just now. All i had to do is say i read the Miiverse COC. If you are using PC or mobile when checking you should then try with Wii U or 3DS
Every time there's a maintenance period, I hope that it means SNES games will finally be on the 3ds Eshop... Please let it happen this time ;-;
Hm a lot of work going on there. Could be to do with the themes, could be something bigger. I'm predicting a direct very soon as we haven't had one which wasn't focused on just one game for a long time. Again i would like one unified account but that never happens. The fact that both Wii eshop and dsi is involved i stands out. Why do i get the feeling that those will be closing shortly?
I was expecting Miiverse to go offline during the maintenance, but it's up and running like as if nothing happened.
Am I the only person still hopeful for the Nintendo smartphone app with Miiverse?
They had best be preparing to distribute some special miis. Still waiting here...three and a half years after launch...
Gotta hand it to Nintendo, they're really trying in terms of keeping up with their online services this time around.
@Porky
they are wiping out all the virtual console games
I like stability. Let's hope it improves online stability for all online Nintendo games.
Oh, good. It won't effect the Fairy Face-Off this weekend for Pokémon X/Y.
I suspect they're at least partially preparing the servers for the increased traffic expected by the international release of Smash Bros. 3DS.
@ogo79: rare downloads confirmed.
@kereke12 The more efficient they make Miiverse on 3dS now, the faster it will be on a new 3DS. And if you want Smash and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate to run properly, you need a new 3DS.
I've been using Miiverse a lot, but I've experiened no problems, so far.
Was on Miiverse yesterday and tonight seemed fine to me.
I can still play Monster Hunter online? Good, then. No problem.
I wonder if this is in preparation for the rumored changes to the account system?
Jesus Christ, Nintendo...what have we done to deserve this?!?
I'm thinking preparation for the October update and/or Smash 3DS release for everywhere except Japan (as it's already out there). The eshop is bound to have huge problems on Friday.
i can only hope after meme run getting announced they are taking some poopoodoodoocacappopledoople shovelware off the store
All will be revealed when it comes. Expect a massive eShop update for both systems. I hope N8ntendo decides to implement a cross buy system for VC NES titles. If so, I'll have a boat0load of free credits waiting for me, assuming it's retroactive.
I'm almost certain they are testing the upcoming Mario Kart 8 DLC for online play
@OmegaStar i'm unbanned i just had to say i understand the Miiverse COC
@kupo being users
Nintendolife could you please reply to this. My wii u is saying i need to accept the terms and conditions of the nnid,yet when i say okay it says online services are unavailable? Its tuesday the 30th sept and its currently 10 30 am. This extended maintainence or am i in trouble as its past the scheduled maintainence and i cant play mk8 anymore!
@Marshi I had the same message last night which was a little weird as, like you say there was no option to agrèe.ill have to try again but you have me a little worried...
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