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Nintendo Switch Online Service lets the console owners enjoy online multiplayer gaming as well as a dedicated smartphone app that connects to the Nintendo Switch system and helps connect with friends for co-op and competitive games online.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Nintendo Switch Online Outage Chart 01/22/2026 01:40

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Online Play (62%)

    Online Play (62%)

  2. Sign in (31%)

    Sign in (31%)

  3. Matchmaking (8%)

    Matchmaking (8%)

Live Outage Map

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomPreston Online Play
ParaguayAsunción Online Play
United StatesPhiladelphia Sign in
United StatesEdenton Matchmaking
United StatesMiami Sign in
United StatesValencia Online Play
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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Bakinsandwich Spooky Bakin 👻 (@Bakinsandwich) reported

    @QMarkk23 @DufauxZac yeah I stopped trying to rank characters since everyone is broken now rare Nintendo W

  • blearyplant jublia (@blearyplant) reported

    @NintendoAmerica FIX UR ****** CONSOLE 😭

  • janimba21 Danny (@janimba21) reported

    @GameSpot **** off lol. It isn't difficult to play. Is it expensive for what they give yes, but it isn't like they are asking for $30 a month. They are offering a service and people can decide to pay for it or not. Besides ******** will pirate it even if it Nintendo kept the OG price.

  • tjohansen98 Trey (@tjohansen98) reported

    ...Nintendo Life articles have bene really going downhill. From parroting garbage switch pro rumors, blatant clickbait, and outright lying. 2 years ago this wasn't an issue but now its a huge problem. They desperately need someone to check their **** before they post it

  • catgirl_megan Megan 🐈 (@catgirl_megan) reported

    @DanaTheElf @mathengedomi Such is the tricky part about video games, that normally "oh well I guess you can't buy this game on Switch" is 100% Nintendo's problem, but they've made it your problem by having an ecosystem that you've made your way into for other reasons, and now it's not worth just leaving.

  • tripletopper Brian Ciesicki (@tripletopper) reported

    @brookgamingfans my Nintendo Switch stopped letting me reassign buttons on my Universal USB Fight Board. It registers as "unable to remap'. I just downloaded firmware 3.0.0 on Mac OS 11.6. Please fix.

  • TNintendogamer TSNintendogamer (@TNintendogamer) reported

    @PcElitest I'm all for critisising company but when people use a person who died like iwata to bash the way nintendo is doing things that's a problem.

  • radiatastory69 radiatastory69 (@radiatastory69) reported

    @hsojlightfoot @Wario64 should be fix with whatever next gen consoles comes up having the uncapped framerate should help the game when nintendo release the switch succesor.

  • NintendoForce Nintendo Force Magazine (@NintendoForce) reported

    @GameHistoryOrg When we first started making Nintendo Force, we got in touch with Songbird Ocarinas to negotiate continue their same ad placements from Nintendo Power. It didn't end up working out, but we did carry forward the Telegames ads from NP's final stretch of issues!

  • polygonalpig the pig who turgled (@polygonalpig) reported

    "Nintendo NEEDS to fix Sora NOW" and all other "this game is BROKEN" videos are do funny to me because they are made like 2 days after the new content drop. this why devs don't trust players when it comes to what does/doesn't need to be nerfed

  • SuperHooktailJr 🎃👻💀Hooktail Jr💀👻🎃 (@SuperHooktailJr) reported from San Bernardino, California

    Ever since the Nintendo switch online had existed in nothing but cause problems with everyone mainly online play and not owning classics that should have been on the eshop to begin with.

  • GoingTheBald Trash Vineyard™ (@GoingTheBald) reported

    @MysteryCupofJoe @PolyDepression Online price going up. Their online service being objectively bad. Nintendo Tax existing in 2021. Refusing to fix joycon drift until threatened with a class action lawsuit. Selling lazy remasters for full price.

  • GPM_Radirgy NTSC-J Enjoyer (@GPM_Radirgy) reported

    @TheSoulMinded Just for curiosity's sake, what triple A projects do you think have avoided these problems and have done it the right way? Also, where should the so-called "Double A" titles fit into everything? AA is a funny term to me as people call Nintendo games AA which I think is weird.

  • lysskathleen lyssa (@lysskathleen) reported

    why is the nintendo site so ******* trash? i literally always run into some sort of problem with it, now i have no payment method and it won't let me add a new one and idk what i'm supposed to do bc like, my smt pre order?? is it just gonna get cancelled??

  • whyimDanNY DanNY (@whyimDanNY) reported

    @GameSpot Surprise! Nintendo is a business out to make money! How shocking! Nintendo has always valued their game legacy and actually I am shocked they are willing to give them in a service for $4.16 a month. Plus licensing fees are a thing people! Actually $4.16 is cheaper than a majority

  • aidan_minter Marshall Minter (@aidan_minter) reported

    @venom_cipher I won’t lie, it felt strange seeing the Daisy emotes different from her design in-game. The question is, will Nintendo fix that in the final product?

  • RoyaILink Ravio⁽ˡⁱ⁾ ღ (@RoyaILink) reported

    Thank you Nintendo for telling me that there was an error with selecting the N64 controller and then having it get sold out

  • Luigiavenges LuigiLito (@Luigiavenges) reported

    @DynamoSuperX If charles really had a problem with it, wouldn't he have said something about it? It seems more likely that he would have probably agreed with Chris role, whether it's if there friends or if he found the voice right. I'm certain Nintendo would take SOME consideration with the...

  • nifflersss 🌻 niffler🌲 (@nifflersss) reported

    right so i know i'm late to this particular problem but how ******** do i get my nintendo app to show my new island since i reset (like 9 months ago lol)

  • Hatsuma2 Hatsuma (@Hatsuma2) reported

    @SLADE10952570 @OrigiGreatness What I don't appreciate, and what John was predicting (which ultimately was accurate) was MS try to brute force the industry with money. They tried to buy Nintendo for crying out loud and Square Enix. Those issues he had with MS joining the game industry weren't out the ***

  • CronicConquest CannibalConquest 🔞🎃☠️🧡🏳️‍🌈 (@CronicConquest) reported

    @GameHistoryOrg I totally remember this and this comes from 2000 to 2007 issues of Nintendo power magazine and I even thought about sending I'm to get this

  • ryanmanfo ryanman (@ryanmanfo) reported

    tomorow is the day where nintendo fans will waste 50$ on a ******* online service

  • NintendoForce Nintendo Force Magazine (@NintendoForce) reported

    @GameHistoryOrg When we first started making Nintendo Force, we got in touch with Songbird Ocarinas to negotiate continuing their same ad placements from Nintendo Power. It didn't end up working out, but we did carry forward the Telegames ads from NP's final stretch of issues!

  • Corey9792 Corey (@Corey9792) reported

    @FortniteStatus I’m having problems being able to watch games on my nintendo switch. Can you look into this?

  • Gman77700 Gman77700 (@Gman77700) reported

    So if Mario Party Superstars sells like crazy maybe Nintendo and NDcube will finally realize if it ain't broke don't ******* fix it

  • SuperHooktailJr 🎃👻💀Hooktail Jr💀👻🎃 (@SuperHooktailJr) reported from San Bernardino, California

    If you want to make better a service for people to be happy then I strongly suggest that the system itself for the Nintendo Switch should be drastically updated to make classic games obtainable on the eshop that is Virtual Console. If you do that then everyone is happy.

  • MarcoTruesilver Christopher Cook (@MarcoTruesilver) reported

    @Deado_7 @BeastOfTruth @WOOLLEY_GAMER It happens on both sides, this isn't a Xbox, Nintendo, PC, or Sony exclusive issue

  • Kilbyarchie KILBY (@Kilbyarchie) reported

    @TheNCSmaster "the nintendo problem"

  • radiatastory69 radiatastory69 (@radiatastory69) reported

    @Jack75023025 @Wario64 it's better the games are avaialble on multiple platform than it is to just have them go up in prices and becoming expensive as hell and ppl not being able to play it which i don't ahve a issue with sine anything outside of nintendo will go down in price eventually.

  • papa_worldwide pop shove it (@papa_worldwide) reported

    So even in this latest big update, Nintendo has not implemented bulk crafting, despite people begging for it. It seems to me like Nintendo knows that doing so would basically crash the economy of online trading, and they care about this for some reason