Multiple Nintendo Switch Network Maintenance Sessions Could Impact Online Gaming This Week

Good thing no one uses it.

We got the new additions to the NES library happening too. Maybe an update with that? They've probably found some issues within the network play with them so perhaps it'll get fixed up for the new three.

Solomon's Key will become my beach.

Those times in Europe, only hermits and stoners will be playing games...

I thing Nintendo love European gamers, we are lucky. Too bad for the Americas.

Good times

Well I don’t have online so .....

"some network services may become unavailable"
Translation: "We're not sure what happens when we reboot since this is our first maintenance on the paid online service"

Imagine what would happen if they used dedicated servers for online!

@WiltonRoots
Or people who aren't in that one timezone. It's the middle of the day for Australia.

Quite a bit of maintenance. I wonder what they are up to. Perhaps some surprise new features? More likely they found a series of exploits an are patching them so people can complain about more stability.

@Velocirapstar That's odd. I guess all those people I've been playing with in Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart 8 are just really convincing A.I. then. And I guess I too, do no exist. Wait... AM I AN A.I. TOO?!

@shaneoh Ahh yes of course, silly me, but wouldn't they be on the beach or at a barbie?

@WiltonRoots Or running from the myriad of death-inducing creatures

'Some Network Services'. Other than online play and E Shop what other 'services' do they offer ?

Lot times

@Velocirapstar. Lol trying to troll when you don't even own a console.

dont expect much , this is N after all, two years and still no update to dashboard or eshop

@HobbitGamer good point.

This better not effect my amazing Nes games or there will be hell to pay😂

Hoping Nintendo will give us a partial refund on the subscription service. If we're going to miss out on valuable play time of River City Ransom, then I want £0.00002 back in gold points to put towards a 1% discount off a Wii U title I already own

So where I live that's my prime evening time for gaming before bed, so I'll pass on MHGU tonight and tomorrow, and get back to Octopath Traveler. No worries.

@WiltonRoots
Well yeah, but aren't we supposed to bring our switch out to those events?

@HobbitGamer
Pfft, only if you're a tourist. Aussies are born with a knife in their hand to deal with those creatures. That's why we introduced strict gun control legislation, because it's just unsporting otherwise.

@shaneoh Haha, have to give the wildlife a chance, eh? I'd like to imagine that there was never a "Jason Goes To Australia" movie because Crocodile Dundee would destroy him with an even bigger machete.

Maintenance for what? they still use this crappy P2P system

So much salt.

This does give a bit of credence to the people complaining about the paid online. This is pretty shoddy, the paid service isn't even done its first month and they're taking the network down during prime time 3 days in a row. That was frustrating when the service was free, but now that people are paying they do have a right to be very upset about that level of service. Pay-for cloud services are meant to be 24/7 without interruption. This is not that. XBL and Steam (Free) effectively never goes down for planned maintenance, and PSN only does so occasionally. They did really need to plan better for up-time. But prime-time 3 days in a row is the worst maintenance they've ever done I can recall....and they choose 3 weeks into people paying for it to do it.

Go on, Nintendo, dig that PR hole just a little bit deeper

So they make us pay for online and then they turn it off. Go Nintendo!

I’m sure it’s going to be all about stability

I playing Just Dance 2018 still interrupted network error.

I'm glad this doesn't really affect Europe, especially since I just subscribed to the Nintendo Switch Online trial. Poor Americans though.

Has anyone seen any improvement whatsoever? I mean, for me it`s about the same, and sometimes I feel the online is a little worse.

I think 20 bucks was worth for the NES games alone, but I would like to see a more robust online service...

And here I thought paying for online would male these maintenance announces more clear, what gamesservices would be impacted. Sigh.

This is really big. We almost never go down this long. Could something genuinely big be coming? Or are they just screwing up as usual?

Dang, that's right in the evening for the next 3 days!

Are they actually making the service halfway decent?!
I doubt it, but I can hope.

@link3710 I'm guessing it's for the worldwide Splatfest next week. They have their biggest outages right before a worldwide Splatfest. It takes a long time to string an Ethernet cable by hand from the dusty old building in Tokyo where all the servers labeled "for gaijin only" are to the state of the art data center in Kyoto where the national servers are so the two sets can talk just for a few days once a year.

But they apparently didn't get the memo that taking a paid-for online service down, intentionally during peak hours 3 days in a row isn't acceptable. A network with zero redundancy and failover.....that's a pretty shoddy network.

Quit all the whining. It's a maintenance and it happens all the time. It won't hurt any of you to just play a freaking game without online for a couple of hours a few days.