Misc Nintendo network completely down?!?!

[Hermpie]

wow, last night I wanted to play a few games of COD ghosts but I could not fetch my online player profile.
today same thing.

I found this statement on the nintendo site:

Due to a high amount of online traffic, network services may be intermittently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

Start Date and Time of Outage:
Wednesday, December 25, 2013 5:15 AM Pacific Time
Ongoing



Did Nintendo sell that many WiiU's this holiday ?
Are the 3DS' the blame for this?
Or is something else going on here...
Cause to me , the whole network is offline ... not overloaded!
Is there anybody ATM who can connect ?

 

[DSoryu]

I can confirm that I can'tm acces the eShop and Miiverse from the 3DS, it seems that the servers are obviously overloaded (Christmass gifts pls) but, I can enter online services such trding in Pokémon X and online races in Mario Kart 7.

 

[MAXLEMPIRA]

since yesterday it happened to me too :/
I hope Nintendo finally sold that mount of Wii U's

 

[GameWinner]

Can't get on the eshop or miiverse on my 3DS.

 

[bowser]

Couldn't access the eShop with my Wii U a few hours ago.

 

[DSoryu]

The error code I got for trying to enter the eShop is 005-4040, it was the same error code when the eShop first launched and everyone couldn't enter.

 

[thaddius]

Just got a Wii U and can't link my Nintendo Network ID to it because of this. Ah well...

 

[pwsincd]

our wiiu has been on and off all day .. glad to know it wasnt at our end.. was getting annoying

 

[Jan1tor]

Couldn't get on the Eshop last night or today. Wanted to ad points. Browser works fine though. Nintendo REALLY NEEDS TO UPDATE THEIR SERVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tbgtbg]

Got a Zelda Wii set for Christmas this morning. Been trying all day but can't access eShop to get my fucking WWHD game.

I hate digital downloads. Put a disc in the box next time you silly bastards.

 

[trumpet-205]

I hate digital downloads. Put a disc in the box next time you silly bastards.

Too bad Wii U have no means to cache game data into HDD for retail disc, something PS3/X360/PS4 and X1 have.

 

[Coto]

if a pokemon save is forked from a faulty key Y wouldn't make gateway online users (in case pokemon gets online support) easier to detect ?

 

[Foxi4]

High amount of traffic? Whose?

If a little under 4 million Wii U's and around 35 million 3DS's (which have barely any impact due to a small number of Nintendo Network games) is "too much traffic", I dread to think what would happen if the Wii U actually sold well.

 

[pwsincd]

change the record foxi , this thread dont need a sales twist to it , we just had connection issues ...

 

[WiiUBricker]

You can check the network status here:

EUR: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/netinfo/en_GB/index.html
USA: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_status.jsp

 

[Bladexdsl]

not working here either. well they don't add new stuff to the shop here until Fridays anyway

 

[Bladexdsl]

working again

 

[Ericthegreat]

Nintendo found out that in "online multiplayer" people interact with each other, so the feature was removed.

 

[Pong20302000]

well EUR seems to be back online now
they removed Pokemon Bank and Transfer for now and disabled the service for it

knowing Nintendo when they finally get everything running they might give us something for free

 

[Bladexdsl]

i should of known pokemon was the cause remember what used to happen to this site when one was released?