Nintendo Gears Up for Quite a Bit of Network Maintenance This Week

Another direct inbound, its happening!

It is good for them to keep working on their network though.

There's so much maintenance this week that you'd think Miitomo and My Nintendo arrive on Friday.

I just hope that when the NX comes along Nintendo´s network wi still be more reliable thank Xbox Live & PSN.

I keep being disconnected on Xenoblade Chronicles X recently, so hopefully this'll address some issues with that. I never had any problems when the game launched though...

Is Miitomo and My Nintendo next week, not this Friday?

Too much stability......I'm out

We're nearing 1 3rd of the month and still no real details as to when My Nintendo will launch. Might wanna get dating it soon Nintendo, along with what lovely prizes we'll be able to exchange our coins with and other details you've left out....

Wonder if they'll be addressing the outrageous load times on Badge Arcade. It'd be nice if it took less time to load than to play.

The stability is real.
Does anyone know at what time (CET) the e-shop update usually goes live on thursday? Can't wait to play Super Metroid on a handheld device

They did this a lot that's it's not even funny anymore
oh well, more Maintenance means. less issues with the connection to online. "Cough" Xbox/Playstation "Cough"

Because Mario's hammer fixes anything! Kinda like the hammer guy on Wreck-It Ralph.

As for connection issues, I'm still playing TPHD, so no biggie.

You know, I'd like to sign up for My Nintendo, but... I can't because I live in Finland. I honestly don't know if the problem is Nintendo or Bergsala (which is a distributor and agent of Nintendo products in Nordic countries).

@ROBLOGNICK We don't have a release date yet so it could be next week but it also could be early April despite March being stated.

@KoopaTheGamer You will be able to sign up once the service launches. Bergsala has no say in stuff like this, they just take care of the distribution end of things. The pre-registration thing was meant for Miitomo (which needs a Ninty account).

That's a lot of Maintenance. I would say maybe some important thing is coming up. But Nintendo seems to do a lot of maintenance, and nothing normally becomes of it.

If they upped Badge Arcade to maybe 5 free plays a day I might be tempted back. Last week they advertised on Twitter 2 free plays per day, but that wasn't enough to get me to turn it back on.

I'm assuming this has to do with the launch of miitomo and my Nintendo.

::crosses fingers::

@rjejr WHY AM I JUST HEARING OF THE 2-PLAYS THING NOW?! And it ends today?!! What... why? How did I miss this?!

@Vee_Flames Did you pick your avatar just for that comment?

1 twitter comment by NOA last Thursday, I think that was all the coverage this got. If you aren't in NA this might not even have applied to you, I don't follow any EU or Japan news accept here on NL.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/705558380270768128

Surely preparing for the new Nintendo Account integration?

@rjejr My avatar really has nothing to do with this! It's just that I like Zootopia's Flash, double-yard dash (if you don't get that part then apologies ). Consider that avatar my reaction to a new Direct, NX reveal, or Zelda U news, though...
Twitter? I think Twitter sucks. Guess that's why I didn't get the news... But why Twitter only? And why didn't Nintendo Life report on this?
Ok, I'd better stop with the questions now lol

I hope they finally fix the glitched badge names. My system is set to Dutch, and because of that the badge names all appear like this:

It was funny at first, but now I'm growing tired of it. All because my system is set to Dutch (it got fixed when I switched to English). I do think the glitched names which look like internal file names are funny, but I'm ready to switch to the regular names now.
Also, give us some badges of the Smash Fighters please, or some general series symbols like the ones found in Smash, I need me some Smash badges!

@Vee_Flames Do you have spotpass enabled? I got the message last week through a spotpass notification. Most notifications about are about a free play and what most of the catchers are that week. Most are kind of useless though because they come through later in the day after I already got the free play and aren't that clear about what day they were meant for.

@CubeFanLucy Oh, it was distributed through SpotPass? Hm... I have been getting a lot of notifications but I don't read them. Well, I guess I'm the one to blame here, especially if I check my notifications and find the message there!

Wow, if I could get 5 free plays a day for the Badge Arcade, I would totally NOT give Nintendo all my money. For now, I give NIntendo about jack squat, though.

@RealPoketendoNL Before they make Smash badges they will make more badges for less popular spinoff series and discontinued services. TriForce Heroes and Amiibo Festival got badges. Swapforce seems to almost always be in some of the catchers even though most of its features were disabled a long time ago. So from that Federation Force will get badges right away. Also badges for things like TVii, Club Nintendo, and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

@rjejr No such thing as a free lunch, amirite?

Yeah, we stopped, too. No big surprise, though. We share game time. Especially my youngest wants to always play games together and it's just impossible on 3DS unless we get more than one. That's not happening.

Kids are playing through Twilight Princess HD though. Looks beautiful and is the definitive version I'm glad to have. Plus, those amiibo always look better in person and Wolf Link is no exception.

That explains why I was having trouble in my castle for FE fates.

@aaronsullivan I miss amirite, though my kids and I finally decided on "Coindexter" for a name. They had no idea who Poindexter was - sometimes anti-bullying in schools goes too far - but once I explained it to them they were on board. They love puns and word games.

Still don't think I'd play it every day even w/ 5 free plays. I'm not even sure where my wife's 3DS is at the moment, after I dropped it onto a glass candle jar - right after I blew out the candle - and broken glass and hot molten wax went all over it, and me, and the kitchen. I may be banned from using it.

Glad your kids are enjoying TP HD. I think we may have gotten it - great amiibo - if I hadn't already played it. That and my kid is getting DI Marvel Battlegrounds next week - I'm really looking forward to that one - and Pokken Tournament, next week as well. And they are both playing XCX. Sometimes they watch each other, sometimes they don't. They are taking a break now for the SMM update, very excited about the keys. Who has time for Coindexter?

Oh, and my youngest is now saving up for Kirby in skells, though I may get it for him for graduation. I'm waiting for March 30th, that's the day Squenix announces the FFXV release date. Yes, they made an announcement a month in advance to announce the date. Squenix is odd.

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2016/01/final_fantasy_xvs_release_date_announcement_is_announced

@mjc0961 compared to the problems with Xbox Live recently, it's very reliable.

@mjc0961 Screenshots? I'm playing through it and I just played through it for a fourth or fifth time on the Wii last year. I'm making judgements by playing it. Are you judging the gyro controls by screenshots? I'm not presuming your are, but you seem to presume I am.

And it's not just the resolution, but the textures being done with great care and detail. I stop all the time in the game just to look around. The faces are nice and sharp and expressive, too. The hard mode, the ability to play mirrored (both ways), other minor features and some small ones that make a big difference (smoothed out pauses and places to skip from the outset, is a big small change).

It's the same game, for sure, but unless you are married to pointing with the Wii remote, it is the definitive version. Haven't run into frame rate issues that I've cared about so far, but that could a potential argument. I'll to go by more than a blip on a chart, though.

@rjejr Hah, Kirby in Skells! You guys are XCX converts! Not that it's up for a vote, but I vote for Coindexter as well.

Wouldn't that be fun if Nintendo let Square announce the NX version, and then Nintendo revealed the NX the next day? I can dream. Not Nintendo's style, but it would rocket both Nintendo and Square into the news cycle for a week even if Nintendo didn't reveal the NX right after. On top of that it could telegraph to the Nintendo faithful that they should start accepting Final Fantasy back into the fold (because Cloud maybe wasn't enough).

@aaronsullivan Cloud

Cloud's inclusion into SSB should mean something from Squenix is coming. I relaly dont' think it's FFXV, they've been working on that game for 10 years, so no NX. FF7 remake is a very likely candidate though. I''d be disappointed if it isn't. Though Sony may be bankrolling it, I forget. But if it's on X1 NX should get it. Otherwise why Cloud in SSB?

And where's his amiibo - Ryu is out Friday. And those AC amiibo are taking up so much space, I don't think anybody is buying them unless they made a Quintilian of them.