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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

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.

Nintendo Switch Online Outage Chart 01/17/2026 09:00

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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 (47%)

    Online Play (47%)

  2. Sign in (42%)

    Sign in (42%)

  3. Matchmaking (11%)

    Matchmaking (11%)

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
ParaguayAsunción Online Play
United StatesPhiladelphia Sign in
United StatesEdenton Matchmaking
United StatesMiami Sign in
United StatesValencia Online Play
United StatesNew Orleans Online Play
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Nintendo Switch Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • LeJ3n021 King Aiden (@LeJ3n021) reported

    @SynthPotato nah subscribe to nintendo switch online. best service ever made

  • JellowMellow69 ☆Jellow☆ (@JellowMellow69) reported

    @NawyBwue "Drift isn't a reql problem." -Nintendo

  • TheEm0Artist 🎃Marcy🎃🧋COMMISSIONS OPEN (@TheEm0Artist) reported

    Nah because Nintendo has done its own community wrong. If they were to add/fix ANYTHING in Animal Crossing, it would be to add the ability to change your name/island name AND be able to have more than one island per switch. It would make us feel less burnt out tbh.

  • captaintaco2345 TacoDraws (commissions open) (@captaintaco2345) reported

    @LSuperSonicQ This is obscure, but the Nintendo Video service on the 3DS has tons of lost media that has never been uploaded anywhere else Also i've never been able to find footage of the VideoNow XP games for Scooby Doo, The Batman, or Teen Titans

  • crashbash317 mrDawn (@crashbash317) reported

    @NinStatusBot pls remove the lag nintendo

  • Omega769Omega Oméga (@Omega769Omega) reported

    @Ultrawing_Vit @gandalfsoda D-Pad or joystick can drift. Problem is the same : Nintendo can't do functional controllers.

  • LeonThotsky7 Havin' Fun Times Online With My Friends (@LeonThotsky7) reported

    @kenklippenstein My uncle works at Nintendo but I can't tell you what they're working on, I don't want to get him in trouble.

  • mas8705 Michael Solseth (@mas8705) reported

    In the end, it will always come down to what value you see in a service and if that will mean you will keep supporting it or not. Part of the reason why you see some people leaving Netflix, or looking at the Nintendo expansion pass and feeling like the value isn’t there.

  • chattylesbian gender: gay n sleepy (@chattylesbian) reported

    @cyberohero @KirbyInformer @gempaw18 Going through the thread it looks like if you've linked the same Nintendo account to your switch you can get around the credit card end of service by just adding funds via switch as the wallets should be shared. Just get it done before the 3DS EShop permanently shutters.

  • MFounderz MrFounderz 😊 (@MFounderz) reported

    @Ghost_Leonheart YEA SHE WAS! She was even teased in one of the Batman Fortnite comics 😭 I think it was issue #3? I hate that Nintendo is doing this it sucks

  • tisgimon Gagar Tisgimon (@tisgimon) reported

    @eahelp hello,I need help My problem is I can't play FUT in mode single player draft on Nintendo switch . When I finished drafting player and sellect play match. Game freeze in blue screen but music still on. I Can't do anything . In another mode I can play.

  • TheBosh067 The Bosh (@TheBosh067) reported

    @MPLNetwork I'd love to see an Oddessy 2 sometime, but Sunshine deserves a sequal way more imo, like I doubt Nintendo would remake SMS on switch after releasing 3D All Stars, so having a sequal that would fix all of the problems of SMS while adding new content would be amazing.

  • HigH_velocity01 The truth (@HigH_velocity01) reported

    @MystifiedBeef12 @enterzalman Nintendo literally locks their classic games to their service for no reason at all, sonys at least letting you keep your PS1 and PSP games from PS3

  • frankalpha11 François couture (@frankalpha11) reported

    @vicam33 @MarziBlythe1988 @NextGenPlayer This bull$hi right there with the licensing crap is why I won't upgrade. They're going to dripfeed games like Nintendo's online service.

  • badpuffmain weg (@badpuffmain) reported

    @RainingChocolat @danfornace nintendo fr would give a character a frame-4, +12-on-shield, 2-frames-of-landing-lag, multihit combo move aerial and then give certain characters 0 good oos options

  • 87th Ross Foubister (@87th) reported

    I'd played a Game Boy before that, so I'm pretty sure I'd tried Super Mario Land before Hotel Mario, but as a die-hard Sega fan, I was very resistant to anything Nintendo at the time and was more interested in trying the Incredible Crash Test Dummies game.

  • Mech_LN Mecha_LN (@Mech_LN) reported

    still crazy how nintendo didnt buy alphadream when they were in trouble, they let all who worked there down

  • XFlameszz 🖤Flames🤍 (@XFlameszz) reported

    holy **** nintendo fix your wifi on anything past window 98 for the love of god

  • WatcherJoshua Joshua @ZeldaUniverse (@WatcherJoshua) reported

    @Dylnamic Nintendo could and should still do better, but N64 has always been difficult to develop for. At the very least, they fix the problems as they show up.

  • EiAyeCapn Siji.ø (The Era øf the Løtus) 🌸🌸🌸 (@EiAyeCapn) reported

    @T4kuyuuki Nintendo products can be very dangerous when modified. Please be safe~ although give the things Nintendo has done, I see no issues in taking back from that which they stole in the first place~

  • hanakomisa Misa (@hanakomisa) reported

    @kotchama I believe WoA not working well on any other arm processors than Qualcomm's is because MS and QC made a deal a while ago that is probably set to expire soon, there was an attempt to run Windows on the Nintendo Switch by imbushio but they gave up due to the memory issues mentioned

  • chubbygamer91 chubby gamer (@chubbygamer91) reported

    @Mike_Matei Fix it was super Nintendo not Sega mu bad lmao

  • Angel48041215 Angel (@Angel48041215) reported

    @NintendoAmerica I keep getting communication error.

  • NintendoShame Nintendo Shame (@NintendoShame) reported

    It's been 306 days since the last game was added to the Nintendo Switch Online service

  • Antheamorganbt1 Anthea.morgan@btinternet.com (@Antheamorganbt1) reported

    Shocking customer service received from Nintendo reference number: 220522-002124 - how can you justify charging me twice for the same purchase of a digital Nintendo game within a 24 hour period for the same account - just wrong! @NintendoUK

  • mcbean56545 BeanMChocolate (@mcbean56545) reported

    I know Sega especially wouldn’t want any trouble. Hell, they don’t even shut down fan games, they celebrate them. Not even Nintendo does that.

  • otagoth Philtomato 🍅 (@otagoth) reported

    House got broken in to last night. Someone stole my Ipad Pro, Nintendo Switch and rent money... Everything is replaceable except for the art files that were for the clients and commissions....I'm tired....

  • outoflamps outoflamps (@outoflamps) reported

    @lizzycentral internally telling myself to not get my hopes up and that this is probably a translation error but please nintendo give us apartments

  • ThornIrisRibbon 🍄🌿🌸✨Springtime's Finally Here!!!!✨🌸🌿🍄 (@ThornIrisRibbon) reported

    @FM54321 Hey @NintendoAmerica, can you please fix this glitch?

  • SuperDaStar Super 💫 (@SuperDaStar) reported

    (shakes fist angrily in the air) fix roller bouncing or else nintendo