Nintendo Network ID Going Offline Next Week During General Maintenance

A lot of features will be off, and I'm waiting for a new handheld console

It'd be nice if Nintendo would announce things instead of forcing it's fans to speculate over every maintenance related it's games and services.

ID name change ? new club nintendo? or both!?

I'm guessing we will finally get some sort of direct or something Thursday. This seems like a lot of maintenance and off time during some peak hours. Gotta be something more then just general maintenance going on.

Club nintendo's successor coming next week?

Hopefully the start of something great!

@Noonch it's not Nintendo's fault fans speculate. they at least give us the heads up the service will we down.

Eh, I expect nothing.

They are just trying bring more stability to the Nintendo Network.

Pokémon Global Link as well will be down for maintenance:
http://3ds.pokemon-gl.com/maintenance/

@gokev13 LOL

...club nintendo replacement prep?

@SanderEvers That would be funny.

Meh, I'll wait until it's done. Too vague to speculate on...

I'll believe it when I see it.

Prepare yourselves, the stability storm is coming...

@AlternateButtons iirc, Its @ThomasBW84 who always uses Paper Mario for maintenance. As you can see, this article was written by @Damo

@ThomasBW84 Holy Instantaneous Reply Batman, that was fast!

New Club Nintendo is coming!

Hopefully it's the new Club Nintendo replacement, or at the very least maintenance work to get ready for its release. The lack of news from Nintendo recently is making me really want them to announce something.

I very much hope this is a real account system and we can finally drop the silly "system transfer" stuff.

Keep your expectations low people

Probably nothing.

@ghall Me too but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Wonder when we can all get Flipnote 3D.

@SanderEvers

But first they will change PlayStation to NintendoStation so it will then be the NS 4

Nintendo Network upgrading to a paid premium service ... gotta do what everyone else is doing

thanks for the heads up, nintendon't

@ikki5 How about the Sony Nintendo?

@hcfwesker Whether you're joking or not, I think that could be the case. The new president is more on the business side and PS+/XBL Gold has made Sony/Microsoft a lot of money.

All this speculation surrounding updates, maintenance etc is really starting to do my nut in.
Nintendo really needs to get back into gear and let's have a direct or something like,even with not so much coming before christmas. I just feel they just need to tell us what is happening

IT COULD BE... THE ACCOUNT SYSTEM!

@Lastar
Fingers crosssed and a lot of prayers from now.
I suggest the rest do same.

@Mr-X9000 Wow, you're so original!

Maybe Nintendo is going to repay us all with a nice farm-fresh carrot?

Or a sweet potato possibly?

time zones?

@Grumblevolcano true it ha made them alot of money but many people here would rather it stay free.

awesome, im keeping my hype low!

@Knuckles holy replies batman! that reply was good!

I have been waiting for news on the Club Nintendo replacement for what seems like an eternity. It better be worth the wait!

@SanderEvers Well thats unlikely, as sony is a much bigger company.

Also is your username named after the presidental candidate?

Is anyone going to mention the Devil's Third maintenance. I think it's going to be a big patch to the game to increase its quality to NOA's standards

Dammit, this is going to happen during my study leave from school. Now what am I supposed to do all day on Monday without Mario Maker, Smash Bros. For Glory and Monster Hunter 4U online?!

@Mus1cLov3r thanks for the blatantly obvious sarcasm

More stability.

@SanderEvers 10 minutes after the maintenance is complete, Microsoft announces they've acquired every other game company in the business, but will not restrict them from developing on other consoles, to make more money.

@Mr-X9000 It wasn't intended to not be obvious, or I would've made it so...

Besides, you're calling them Nintendon't on an article announcing something they are doing: performing maintenance. Because that makes sense.

@edgedino I wouldn't want it to be paid either but I know it'll happen eventually if Nintendo is going to stand a chance of succeeding with NX.

@Grumblevolcano No, free online is one of the few edges Nintendo has over the competition. They'd be stupid to drop that. Plus, at this stage Nintendo cares more about how many products they're selling rather than the exact amount of profit they're making.

@Patriplexity
After one month...
So they can, i mean Nintendo.
Maybe Nintendo should also do something more than patch holes used only(?) for homebrew. Who wannna steal something it will do it anyway.

No, it's probably wicked. Something WICKED this way comes.

Repair man Mario should be a costume in Mario Maker.

@Captain_Gonru Pacific Time

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_status.jsp

@Mus1cLov3r and thats the joke

@Mr-X9000 The joke is implying that Nintendo never do anything, even though the joke is being made on an article regarding something that they are doing? I fail to see anything funny about it, whatsoever; it just contradicts itself...