According to The Verge, as more people flocked to the Nintendo Switch eShop to use their Christmas gift cards, there were interruptions and error messages popped up on the eShop screens. According to a report from Kotaku, the holiday season at the end of this year has caused the Nintendo Switch eShop to ‘crash’ the system again.
Nintendo posted a tweet, announcing that the company is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, accompanied by a link to Nintendo’s online service status page, where you can update. any information about the decommissioning.
According to the status page, the problems started to arise around 4pm Vietnam time, the company did not provide any additional information about the outage, other than the vague message: “We are currently experiencing difficulties with our network services. Please try again later. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” (We are currently experiencing difficulties with our network services. Please try again later. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause).
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Also according to the crash timeline bar from the DownDetector site, it looks like the issues peaked around 9pm, but have since subsided. Accessing the Nintendo Switch eShop, as well as downloading some updates was possible around 4am the next day, which is a sign that things are starting to get online again.
One caveat is that the outage won’t affect online gameplay, but you won’t be able to purchase or download any content from the eShop.
The Nintendo eShop went down last Christmas, and the company didn’t fully restore the service until the next day. Nintendo even warns players that the eShop can get overwhelming during the holidays and advises them to create a Nintendo account beforehand.
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