Nintendo Switch Online down? Current status, problems and outages

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Nintendo Switch Online reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Nintendo Switch Online users through our website.

• Online Play (62%)
• Sign in (23%)
• Matchmaking (8%)
• Glitches (8%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Nintendo Switch Online outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Melbourne	Online Play	16 days ago
Vallejo	Glitches	19 days ago
Mobile	Online Play	25 days ago
Milan	Online Play	1 month ago
Albacete	Online Play	2 months ago
Manchester	Online Play	2 months ago

Full Outage Map

Community Discussion

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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Logan (@ZOMG_Logan) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Michaelton_ Well at least it is a service that has confirmed updates. You’d think with it being a subscription that would give them the incentive to improve it, but it’s Nintendo and nothing they do in regards to online stuff makes sense. God I love / hate this company

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  Mr. Sartun (@MrSartun64) reported 4 minutes ago

  @PikminBloom @NintendoAmerica Hey Nintendo fix your ****** online you piece of ****

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  Castcoder (@Castcoder) reported 5 minutes ago

  Losing connection and having a lag fest in Mario Party Superstars on a connection with 1 Gig internet and an Ethernet cable. Nintendo, it is 2021. Why is this so hard??? Why am I paying $80 a year for this?

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  Andrew Dice (@SpaceDrakeCF) reported 6 minutes ago

  @builddivers You CAN also get an import copy from Japan, which will have the English version on-disc and will run on a Switch or PS4 without issue. If you want DLC, though, you would need to create a JP PSN or Nintendo account (tho the Nintendo account is trivial to make).

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  𝙹𝚞𝚍𝚢 𝙷𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚜 (@ShortStackCop) reported 12 minutes ago

  Nintendo is now Hiding the online service with N64 Games behind a Pay wall. A massive 50 dollar pay wall which in all fairness lets be real it should be 10 instead. And They haven't ******* did nothing with the service there drip feeding the consumers.

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  pıʌɐp (@davidcomplainz) reported 16 minutes ago

  this has been a problem with first-party nintendo controllers since the wii. nintendo controllers used to age like wine but now they age a lot more like milk… COUGH. COUGH. JOY-CONS. COUGH.

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  Keltharr (@Keltharr) reported 18 minutes ago

  Mario Tennis and Star Fox 64 run great on #NintendoSwitchOnline, but Zelda OOT is BRUTAL! It feels like almost a half second of lag. How can Nintendo be this incompetent with emulation? Beyond frustrated since I mainly bought the expansion pack to experience Zelda OOT.

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  The Loner Collector (@ionlytweetstuff) reported 20 minutes ago

  Still stinks that the 2006 Family Guy game was planned for GameCube but was never released I wonder why...compression issues, being unable to get past Nintendo’s quality-of-life testing, or simply cancelled during development in fears that it would flop?

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  KingBlue INFINITE (@KingBlueINF) reported 21 minutes ago

  Honestly i dont notice input lag with Nintendo Switch Online.

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  SUPRA-🇸 | 🌪️⚡🦋 (@_Sebee_) reported 25 minutes ago

  @evermore_drew @NintendoAmerica Search in YouTube how to fix it

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  GammaSpark (@GammaSpark) reported 27 minutes ago

  @OmegaSSBU @Antithesis404 @LazyZach23 No they cannot. There's literally a clause that states Nintendo can deny service for any reason.

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  Nil (@InitiumNil) reported 27 minutes ago

  I genuinely like smash ultimate but the online literally makes it so unplayable. Nothing but projectile spam, camping and suspicious lag spikes. Why Nintendo allows this to continue being this way is such a stupid choice

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  Kelayda (@evilsherbear) reported 28 minutes ago

  Or Nintendo never adds another expansion to AC again because they're Nintendo. If any game they have that would make sense as a live service, continually update game its AC. But they're struggling to put things out consistently. I'm guessing that's why the big content drop.

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  So Purple it's almost illegal 💜🇩🇪 BLM (@randytheartdog) reported 28 minutes ago

  YO KIDZ ya wanna get some sweet *** nostalgia for your Nintendo switch? pay 50 bucks for oot with input, audio delay and graphical errors not convinced yet? let's throw in Mario kart that doesn't allow you to save ghost files! 👌 Nintendo = low effort, get cash

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  Nova2127u 💙 (@Nova2127u) reported 30 minutes ago

  @NabbitFan730 @jycompany_ It's a problem when they take down a project that gains no monetary value, and not a problem when a project that is attempting to profit off Nintendo's intellectual property is taken down.

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  Anna 🏳️‍⚧️ (@caIicoanna) reported 34 minutes ago

  it baffles my mind like.. with how nintendo service's n64 thing did horribly. makes me wonder if they really tested their **** at all like.. if you test them, you'd see problems right away so. .wtf

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  KOA 🍣🍺 (@digitALEXport) reported 34 minutes ago

  @sumichu Biggest issue comes with transferring Nintendo Account over and Animal Crossing/Pokemon saves. Overall, i don't think the upgrade is worth the price tag. Perfect world, the Lite and OG would have dropped by $50 to make way for OLED

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  Cceider (@Cceider156) reported 35 minutes ago

  @PikminBloom Hi! I'm trying to to create a Pikmin Bloom account for my mom since she likes Pikmin but when i try to connect her Nintendo account to pikmin bloom it says "you cannot login with a non-kids account" I don't understand what that means

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  Tired_Witcher (@Undead_Witcher) reported 36 minutes ago

  Nintendo's support system is ******* garbage. To even get into contact with them I have to do their steps that already don't work, and when they are closed I can't even put in a ******* support ticket for my issue. Only four issues they deem worthy.

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  Khaelis (@KhaelisEXE) reported 37 minutes ago

  Ah, there are the good ol' connection issues with Nintendo's servers. I've disconnected two games in a row...

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  ⋆ 𝓖𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓜 ⋆ 𝔡𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔬𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯 𝟛𝟙𝔰𝔱 (@GloomVTuber) reported 40 minutes ago

  @IsMingg Apparently Nintendo and Elgato just kinda hate eachother??? I'm not sure! I stopped trying to fix mine for the time being. (｡T ω T｡) If you work out what's going on, would you mind letting me know aswell?

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  Mr. Sartun (@MrSartun64) reported 40 minutes ago

  @NintendoAmerica @PikminBloom Fix your ****** online service you piece of ****

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  Adrian (@ShuffleGaming) reported 42 minutes ago

  @scully1888 @Toufool That isn't the excuse you think it is. Modern games have widened windows but older games do not. Which puts a higher standard on Nintendo to reduce the input lag the console itself generates together with any controllers cuz modern televisions are the factor they can't control

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  ً (@builddivers) reported 42 minutes ago

  @SpaceDrakeCF No issue for me then I have a JP Nintendo account.

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  bruhmoment69 (@bruhmp4h264) reported 46 minutes ago

  Nintendo's really trying to squeeze there loyal fans dry of all there money for a service that's barley worth it. I love you Nintendo but c'mon

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  Downstackguy (@downstackguy) reported 46 minutes ago

  @dkeerl @NintendoAmerica What mistakes do you want them to fix?!? Have you thought of the logistics. You want conpletely new boards for super mario party comlletely replacing them all? Might as well make a new game then

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  ian64 (@iandrawsthings) reported 46 minutes ago

  Checked to see if my Switch had a problem since it kept repeatedly checking if “my software can be played”. It appears that somehow my console deregistered and is no longer my primary console. But i don’t HAVE another console. @NintendoAmerica help 😭

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  DuoFantom (@DuoFaceYT) reported 49 minutes ago

  Nintendo will release GC online for $60 dollars, and add melee but with 30 frames of input lag and wavedashing causing the game to slow to a crawl because it can’t handle it

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  Thrinity (@ThriniT) reported 55 minutes ago

  @ApostolicPaladN @NintendoAmerica The loyalty is the problem. Loyalty in economics is literally the key to being able to increase your prices and reduce your quality without big loss of consumer base. It allows a corporation to become too big to fail and that's exactly what they are.

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  Chet’s Weltanschauung (@Chet_Novels) reported 56 minutes ago

  2. In 2017, the Nintendo Switch began to replace my PS4 as my indie machine. Additionally, I rediscovered Nintendo franchises I hadn’t played since the Wii (and not much even then) 3. In 2019, my launch PS4 began to hard crash if I tried to put it in sleep mode 2/?