With most individuals quarantined in their homes, online services appear to be struggling under the strain of so many users. Steam hit a new concurrent player record, while both Xbox Live and Discord went out for a few hours within the past few days. Nintendo is the latest to suffer from this, as Nintendo Switch Online services are currently down, including access to the eShop, for users across the world. According to Nintendo of America's support page, all network services for the Switch, Wii U, and 3DS are currently unable to connect. The situation is being looked into, and will hopefully be fixed soon.

UPDATE: As of a few hours later, Nintendo of America, Europe, and Japan have all confirmed that online services should be back up and running.

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[DANTENDO]

i guarantee some idiot is gonna ask for ther £3.50 back lol

 

[RyRyIV]

Man, COVID really is shutting everything down

 

[banjo2]

I was planning on playing tonight

 

[linuxares]

Animal Crossing upgrade for sure!

 

[NoNAND]

Coronavirus again?

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

laughs in wiimmfi

 

[Dust2dust]

That's understandable. Their infrastructure was never meant to support so many users logging in at once. And on top of that, it's a worldwide problem. Time to go back to good old-fashioned offline gaming.

 

[Bimmel]

Worldwide? I can play just fine.

 

[JuanMena]

Man, COVID really is shutting everything down

*cough*
over population
*cough cough*

 

[Jayro]

Man, it's almost like they could have prepared for this or something...

 

[Scarlet]

I only noticed when I couldn't save scum to recruit a shiny Gyarados in Mystery Dungeon ;_;

Better now than Friday tho, here's hoping they get it all sorted!

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Aw man, they must have overloaded their poor C64 server

 

[James_]

How am I going to play UNO now?






/s

 

[raxadian]

The 3DS still has online services?

Must be only to sell games because you can't trade Pokemon online anymore. I do not know if any 3DS game still has any online service left that still works.

 

[ombus]

i can already see the rage from the users that cant download animal crossing on friday..

 

[chrisrlink]

awe i thought some script kiddies got mad about them taking down warez sites and finally did something about it

 

[DANTENDO]

i can already see the rage from the users that cant download animal crossing on friday..

Animal crossing luvers are a peaceful race

 

[linuxares]

Animal crossing luvers are a peaceful race

Have you seen the Doom and Animal Crossing crossovers?! I think they are a bunch of raging freaks! ;P

 

[ombus]

Animal crossing luvers are a peaceful race

Only if they have and are playing their game xD