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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Nintendo Switch Online users through our website.
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Online Play (58%)
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Sign in (33%)
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Matchmaking (8%)
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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Ryan Hingst
(@dinkst121) reported
@JoeMerrick @Silva_Jin93 With Pokemon being the largest multimedia franchise in the world, there should be absolutely no frame rate issues what so ever. Gamefreak and Nintendo are both guilty of not insuring the games are the absolute best they should be. Everything else is semantics.
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Sarah @ Pokémon S&V Spoilers❤️💜
(@SJTrainer2) reported
I know I’m gonna love Pokémon Scarlet and Violet regardless, but it does suck to hear that performance issues were it’s main problem. Nintendo & GameFreak don’t need to make AAA games, but they do need to fix this since it’s been prevalent for a while. Hope a patch can fix it.
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💥🌺 Jared 🌺💥 • #BLM ✊🏾
(@jeezreeze12) reported
@judgmentnut_end it's not even necessarily a nintendo problem, they just don't let pokemon games cook long enough breath of the wild was one of the first switch games out and it runs great
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2-Way_Intersection 🔞
(@2WayIntrsctn) reported
@LeftOfAOC @Reecee_yt @NintendoAmerica bro what the hell is your problem?
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STAGEBLOQ
(@STAGEBLOQ) reported
@trsrpc I’m going to have to put my foot down and request that Nintendo allow their games to visually flourish as much as they allowed BOTW and Odyssey to. The problem is I think this is a Gamefreak issue which requires ninty intervention.
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Media Messengers 👑
(@MMessengers) reported
@Shoryuken91 Right, first of all it's a cartoon/video game so there's that. I'm sure Nintendo had a long talk about NOT being offensive to Italian's by having a broken english typecast for Mario and last, Leguizamo is Hispanic (like me) not Italian!
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Qphlat
(@Qphlat) reported
@Konatari1 I love Nintendo and I love the Switch but seriously it probably only has, MAX, a year or 2 left in it.. Again, that's being generous. When your own hardware can't its own software, there's a real problem. Ever since the PS5 and the Series S/X launched its age has really shown.
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Not Rick Cheese
(@NotMy7thAccount) reported
@IGN @Nintendo What happened to only hot ladies doing the Fix? Narz ain’t it
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t0bi
(@t0bi_exe) reported
The switch console itself is probably the biggest issue Nintendo has right now, the thing couldn’t run for its life if it had to.
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Super Nerd Jezebel
(@Supernerd4245) reported
@HardcoreMetal89 @trsrpc Nintendo published these games, game freak develop these games. Problem is that gf try to keep pace with the anime series. Reason why they release them the way they do a lot of times.
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Honest Abe
(@Honest_Abez) reported
@HoegLaw @BenjiSales That’s part of the issue but GameFreak is notoriously not a great studio either. Other games perform much better on Switch, from Nintendo proper at least. Tears of the Kingdom will really be the test.
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Spaxer
(@OfficeSpax) reported
@Doctor_Cupcakes Currently my issue, we've seen Pokémon games look great but we've seen them also look horrible. All the while other Nintendo 1st Party games are pushing the system in amazing ways. GF really does need to take time off and just craft a hearty visual game, but they won't bc money..
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ｓａｃｒｅｄ ｄｉｖｉｎｉｔｙ 可流フ
(@Veeluminati) reported
@motiontwin Loving the new update but one issue that's been persistent since the last one or two updates is that the Dilapidated Arboretum on Nintendo Switch drops frames to 18fps unless you enter different rooms.
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Osvaldo Sanchez | anewuser
(@osv_sanc) reported
@SpawnWaveMedia TPC & Nintendo be like: "20 million copies year 1 here we go. Hold my low poly, performance issues, AAA lithium batteries, 2015 year old tech, Nintendon't, Nintendo is doomed, we should be third party, WiiU failed" 20 million copies year 1 here we go.
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Fonz
(@FonzGaming) reported
@BrokenGamezHDR_ Never understood that about Nintendo, they release their games for one platform, why is their always performance issues?
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Cheesewheel DX
(@blaiddydbrokeit) reported
@SingtelSupport Connection is unstable (currently playing Splatoon 3 for Nintendo Switch and facing severe connection issues) and connection drops on phone even in the same room as the router, but forced reconnecting by turning WiFi setting on phone off and on again works with given password.
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Cameowla
(@malkavianmirror) reported
@EggGuyTweet at this point I would say that this is a switch issue and not the game company, since way more games also run like ****, I think that the dev kit nintendo uses is probably stronger than their own hardware.
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________
(@__Con_) reported
If I can play spore, sorry, but in a hand held, Nintendo are in trouble this and 23 q1
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Bushy ⚡ 🔜 Paldea Region
(@Bushando64) reported
Why tf is Pokémon HOME not an included perk of the Nintendo Switch Online service
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CartridgeGames
(@CartridgeGames) reported
@MyFavBowman Bayo 3 is really good still. Haven’t had too many issues myself. Any new Nintendo hardware is probably two years delayed by the pandemic, unfortunately. Not sure if this means we’ll get something next year or what
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drawnrobots
(@drawnrobots) reported
It gives me an excuse to play some of those games again. I wasn't signed up to Nintendo's cloud service thing either. Whatever, it's happened, and I can't go back. At least I have a functioning Switch again.
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Metal of Raccoon City
(@HardcoreMetal89) reported
@trsrpc I'll skip it till the issues are sorted out. Nintendo needs to hurry up and release the next generation Switch already.
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Brandon Bevilacqua
(@BrandonBevilacq) reported
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Amherst, New York
@BlondeNerd At this point i blame the hardware, not the software. Every switch game is having these issues. Nintendo needs to upgrade their **** and join current next. You cant expect current gen standard performance on a system thats weaker than a ps4 and hardly at ps3 standard
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ScarletDMC
(@ComicsanDlove) reported
visuals subpar cause all effort went to online structures that most won't have cause nintendo switch online service basically games are $80+ and it shouldn't be acceptable
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Rayn
(@RTHMedia007) reported
@SpawnWaveMedia I’ve always wondered if they either have awful programmers or just not enough time to properly optimise the games. Pokemon seems to have this issue since the beginning and it’s strange as is is clearly nintendo’s biggest game series and no other series suffers this bad
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Travis V
(@pimpn_space_hos) reported
@Minuy600 @nintendolife No idea, my daughter and I both agree they are best Pokemon since shield and sword. We haven't had any technical issues so far. But I agree, the switch sucks bad, what do you expect, it's Nintendo they make toys for children. I play on steam deck and pc for more power.
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Nozomi (XRazzalyn)
(@NXRazzalyn) reported
@JamesistheT @AustinJohnPlays Nintendo doesn't need to put out an updated model, they will need to move onto their next offering. The issue would indeed be with the game (likely shader or rendering), a very easy fix but not something they can probably push out in a week or two.
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TM06💿: Exploring Paldea 🍇🍊
(@trsrpc) reported
@meek_gamer Those games have patches made, this wouldn't be the case since GF or Nintendo ever do performance patches. AC Syndicate is a good example of how a new console can't fix optimization issues.
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Ren Fuchsfein
(@fuchsfein) reported
@ADH_Gaming Oh I have this game. But I don't know how you got it officially back then. I bought mine used in a 2nd hand shop. Perhaps it was a Club Nintendo reward. From my experience Majora's Mask runs well but it does crash sometimes after a while. I never used Owl saves because of that.
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GigaBuster_EXE
(@GigaBusterEXE) reported
Or not getting back to making something look nicer or optimized Chibbi 3D or sprite have less of that problem Also your switch battery would last forever on an easy to render sprite game. 3D needs to wait until Nintendo releases something that's better than a tablet from 2012