Nintendo completing maintenance on its network is a very regular occurrence, in most cases with around two hours of downtime. There is a bit of extended work this coming weekend, though, so it's worth bearing in mind for North American gamers - in particular.
The upcoming ten hour window will affect 'some network services', so won't necessarily knockout the eShop and online gaming across Wii U and 3DS for the whole period. It does start on Sunday evening for those in North America, however, so could interfere with some late weekend matches - the times are below.
From Sunday February 21 at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am UK (22/02) / 2am CET (22/02) until Monday February 22 at 3am Pacific / 6am Eastern / 11am UK / noon CET.
As an aside the Super Mario Maker web bookmark service will be affected for an hour early next week.
From Monday February 22 at 9pm Pacific / midnight Eastern / 5am UK (23/02) / 6am CET (23/02) until Monday February 22 at 10:00pm Pacific / 1am Eastern (23/02) / 6am UK (23/02) / 7am CET (23/02)
Nothing to get too upset or excited about, as these extended periods of maintenance are relatively regular now. We suspect the Pokémon-themed Splatoon Splatfest will have most tapped out of online gaming by the time this maintenance rolls around, in any case.
[source nintendo.com]
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Nintendolife really overuses that image!
Does this maintenance signal an upcoming nintendo direct? Only time will tell.
@ShanaUnite I hope so, FE Fates is out in NA today but still no release window for EU!
Hasn't this been a weekly thing now for a while or does it just seem that way?
If Pokemon red wins in Splatfest, we get Fates EU release date. If Blue wins, we get a Direct including Fates release date, Zelda U footage and Mother 3 release.
I'm busy with university stuff next week anyway so I don't really care.
More delicious stability!!!!
There's been a lot of network maintenance lately, more than I can recall at any other point. I guess they're setting up infrastructure for My Nintendo.
Probably to recover from the Poke'mon Splatfest this weekend. Seriously, can you imagine how many people are gonna take part in that? It's Poke'mon AND Splatoon! O_O
@Splatburst It is the opposite.
@Grumblevolcano I'm more salty over this than I figured I'd be.
Is this to stop Poke hacking again?
There is not gonna be a direct soon. NOTHING is happening before E3 to warrant a direct.
I got Fastlane to watch and Street Fighter V to keep me busy
@Zanark: The past five-bajillion maintenance periods we've had didn't result in anything. There have been so many lately, and I can only honestly remember one time when a Nintendo Direct immediately followed a maintenance period explaining the changes to the network. My guess is that Nintendo Network is being adjusted to accommodate the NX, which would use the same service.
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